William Cockburn to Hans Sloane – January 30, 1693/94
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Date: January 30, 1693/94 Author: William Cockburn Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036 Folio: f. 159
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British Library, London
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Royal College of Physicians, Social
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Examinations, Licenses
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January 30, 1693/94
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London
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[fol. 159] Sir I was to have waited on you in order of visiting befor my examination for an Interlicentiate W Cockburn London Jan: 30th 1693/4
William Cockburn was a physician who wrote works on the diseases of seamen and published in the Philosophical Transactions. He had a large medical practice and claimed to have a secret remedy for dysentery (Charles Creighton, Cockburn, William (16691739), rev. Anita Guerrini, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5777, accessed 5 July 2013]).
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