Charles Preston to Hans Sloane – February 23, 1700
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Date: February 23, 1700 Author: Charles Preston Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037 Folio: ff. 372-373
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Curiosity Reports, Library, Medical, Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship
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Subjects
Balfour Library, Botany, Catalogues, Curiosities, Drawings, Stones
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Date (as written)
February 23, 1700
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Origin (as written)
Edn. [Edinburgh]
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Others mentioned
Sir Andrew Balfour Sir James Balfour Sir Robert Sibbald
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Patients mentioned
Unnamed
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Transcription
Preston read the most recent Philosophical Transactions. He has some botanical catalogues for Sloane. A stone was found in a woman’s pelvis. He provides ‘figures of the stones’ for Sloane. A catalogue of Balfour’s Library is to be published. Preston was a physician and botanist who established a lengthy correspondence with Sloane, exchanging plants, seeds, books and information. His main interest was in botany, and was well-known by his contemporaries for his botanical knowledge (Anita Guerrini, Preston, Charles (16601711), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47084, accessed 18 June 2013]).
Patient Details
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Name: N/A Unnamed
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Description
Preston reminds Sloane about a case he previously relayed regarding a stone found in a woman's kidney.
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Medical problem reference
Stone, Kidney, Pain, Urinary