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Edward Howman to Hans Sloane – September 25, 1723
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Date: September 25, 1723
Author: Edward Howman
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 258
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Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Unnamed Woman
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Age:
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Description
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Diagnosis
Pain in the kidney and hypochondria. The kidney pain is new. It is not hard or distended. Urine is copious and well-coloured, so probably not nephritic.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Asses milk and testaceous powders; soft and cooling diet; gargarisms and injections; issue in arm; purge once or twice weekly; blister to back; bleeding at foot.
Ongoing Treatment: For kidney pain, applying fomentations, liniments and cataplasms. Internally, she is taking pilul. e Galb: Gum. Ammoniac. Sperm. Cet: millep. sal succin &c.
Response: The patient "found very great relief as to the particular complaints mention'd in my [previous] letter". But she is now finding an unusual pain in left kidney extending into hypochondrium and affecting region of spleen. Any pressure causes "great pain & uneasieness, & sometimes a difficulty in breathing".
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Kidney, Spleen, Menstrual, Hypochondria, Pain
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John Evelyn to Hans Sloane – ca. 1702
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Date: ca. 1702
Author: John Evelyn
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 91
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John Evelyn was a diarist and writer who demonstrated a remarkable knowledge of horticulture. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Society (Douglas D. C. Chambers, Evelyn, John (16201706), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8996, accessed 9 July 2013]).
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John Ray to Hans Sloane – November 10, 1697
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Date: November 10, 1697
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 365-366
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Ray has returned ‘the 2 Tribes [Sloane] last sent’. He received Mr Harris’ book yesterday, which he found ‘to be a scurrilous piece’ that falsely attributes many ideas to Dr Robinson. Ray found several ‘Typographical Errata’ in Sloane’s own work. He asks Sloane to ‘dispatch away to Dr Preston’ the enclosed.
Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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William Beauvoir to Hans Sloane – April 18, 1715
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Date: April 18, 1715
Author: William Beauvoir
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 37-38
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[fol. 37] Paris Ap:ll 10:th 1715. Sir, My L:d Stair’s Equipage hath detain’d me so long, that I am but lately arriv’d here, w:ch is the Reason that I have not return’d You sooner my most humble & hearty Thanks for Yr favour to my spouse & my self. Yr Goodness is still greater than I cou’d expect, & therefore I have all the Gratitude in the World for it. I am at a Loss how to manage about the Money w:ch Mr Copley is willing to pay next Month for my Wife. If he continues in that Good Temper, let me beseech You to be so kind as to receive it: And to give Your self the Trouble to inform me, what is requir’d of me towards the receiving of it. It can’t be better than in Yr hands, & I flatter my self You’d be pleas’d to grant me that Favour. I went my self to Mr Geofroy’s house as soon as I arriv’d to see Yr Present safely deliver’d, but did not speak with him But I design to wait upon him with Coll Chasselon, who gives humble service to You, & hat desir’d me to acquaint You, that he hath several Curious Observaons to communicate to the Roy’ll Society. They relate to Mathematiks [sic], Physicks, & Navigation. I long to have the Hon:r of Yr Commands, & an opportunity to approuve my self, Sir, Your most humble & most Obed’t servant Wm Beauvoir
William Beauvoir was Chaplain to John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair.
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Christopher Keon to Hans Sloane – March 16, 1723/24
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Date: March 16, 1723/24
Author: Christopher Keon
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 151-152
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Keon requests that Sloane speak with Lord Cadogan. Keon hopes the latter will offer a recommendation to help him secure a post with the ‘Comis’r of the Revenue in Ireland’.
Christopher Keon was a Land Surveyor in the Port of London.
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Thomas Howard to Hans Sloane – July 11, 1698
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Date: July 11, 1698
Author: Thomas Howard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 256
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Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Edmund King
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Description
He had "sharpnesse of urine." He gave an account of his journey to Bath as he became ill in on the coach which was made worse by the fact that the place where he was to spend the night was "full of drunken fellows all singing at one time." He was so ill the next day he had to take a litter to Bath.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment: See Sloane MS 4037, ff. 81, 83 and 104 for the whole case. He began taking the waters at Bath the day after his journey, starting at half a pint and moving up to four and half pints. They agreed well with him other than sometimes giving him a loose stool. At one point he was very drowsy and had a hot fit which lasted less than three hours. He also asked about taking Jesuits powder.
Response: The water did ease the sharpness of his urine and his thirst, and he was able to eat more easily. Had recently had cold and hot fits, which he treated with cold barley water.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Headache, Pain, Urinary, Fevers
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William Cuppage to Hans Sloane – November 25, 1705
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Date: November 25, 1705
Author: William Cuppage
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 95-96
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Material Culture, Patronage, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, Scientific
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Subjects
Barometers, Education, Fellowship, Fossils, Mathematics, Royal Society
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Date (as written)
November 25, 1705
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Whitehaven
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Others mentioned
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Patients mentioned
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Cuppage thanks Sloane for considering him worthy of a Royal Society Fellowship. Preparations for the teaching of mathematics in Bristol kept him from sending what Sloane asked. Cuppage relays an account of, and some remarks on, petrification and discusses the nature and design barometers. He asks Sloane to acquaint the Royal Society with his design.
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Thomas Howard to Hans Sloane – July 11, 1698
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Date: July 11, 1698
Author: Thomas Howard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 256
Original Page
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Thomas Howard to Hans Sloane – July 11, 1698
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Date: July 11, 1698
Author: Thomas Howard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 256
Original Page
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Frederica Darcy to Hans Sloane – August 7, 1723
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Date: August 7, 1723
Author: Frederica Darcy
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 244
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Lady Frederica Susanna Schomberg gained the title Countess of Holderness when she married Robert Darcy, 3rd Earl of Holderness. In 1724 she married Hon. Benjamin Mildmay and her married name became Mildmay. Her titles included Countess FitzWalter and 3rd Countess of Mértola (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederica_Mildmay,_Countess_FitzWalter).