Thomas Short to Hans Sloane – June 10, 1732
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Date: June 10, 1732 Author: Thomas Short Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052 Folio: f. 127
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English
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British Library, London
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Royal Society, Scientific
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Experiments, Mineral Waters
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Date (as written)
June 10, 1732
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June 10, 1732
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Origin (as written)
Sheffield
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Short discusses his work on mineral waters in detail. He has compiled figures ‘of the Crystals I have got’. Thomas Short was a Scottish physician who settled in Sheffield. He traveled throughout England examining the medical effects of mineral waters and published works promoting their use in 1725 and 1766 (Norman Moore, Short, Thomas (c.16901772), rev. Patrick Wallis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25461, accessed 24 July 2013]).
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