Letter 3724

Woolhouse sends medical theses by Mr Zollman. The 35 theses he sent before should have arrived, but the carrier died so they stayed in Amiens for some time. Woolhouse sent a journal to Mr Buckley’s address, which Sloane can now pick up. Beaumont is returning to London with a recommendation from Mr Walpole. John Thomas Woolhouse was an English oculist and physician. He practiced physic in London, served James II for a time, and in 1711 secured a position at Paris’s Hospice des Quinze-Vingts. He served as the King of France’s oculist, was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1721, and a member of both the Berlin Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Sciences of Bologna. Woolhouse was criticized for charlatanry by some contemporaries (Anita McConnell, Woolhouse, John Thomas (16661734), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29954, accessed 17 July 2013]).