Letter 4147

George Louis Teissier to Hans Sloane – January 19th 1733


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Date: January 19th 1733
Author: George Louis Teissier
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053
Folio: f. 146



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Teissier writes to Sloane to ask a favour. He would like to see Sloane this day at eleven o’clock in the morning at giles’s Coffe house in the Pall Mall if it is convenient. Or before or after if better. He asks Sloane to send him a response by letter at the coffee house. George Louis Teissier (d. 1742) was a German-born physician. He was physician to George I and George II as well as Westminster Hospital from 1728 to 1733. He also worked at St George’s Hospital and to Chelsea Hospital. Teissier was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1725 (https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27teissier%27%29).




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