Letter 4181

Cockburn writes to Sloane about a letter he received yesterday from Sr Robert Bradshaigh, who will deliver something to Sloane. He speaks of Dr Maynard and the college of physicians, and how he is well established in Wegan. 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]).