Letter 0114

Posted on August 2, 2016 by -

Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine to Leonard Plukenet – February 29, 1687/88


Item info

Date: February 29, 1687/88
Author: Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine
Recipient: Leonard Plukenet

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 9


Original Page


Transcription

Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine, was MP for Old Sarum and although his privy chamber office ended with the death of Charles II, he held local offices in Middlesex through the 1680s and 90s. In 1705, he published ‘The History and antiquities of the town and church of Tottenham’ (Nicholas Doggett, Hare, Henry, second Baron Coleraine (bap. 1636, d. 1708), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12299, accessed 8 July 2013]).



Patient Details

  • Patient info
    Name: Miss. Hare (Daughter of Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine)
    Gender:
    Age:Child.
  • Description

    Cough, fits, vomiting, spots. Cough most troublesome.

  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
    Previous Treatment:

    Previously treated with unknown remedy for measles, cough and distemper.


    Ongoing Treatment:
    Response:

    The child continues to do better with regards to the measles and distemper but the former has made her cough worse. However, the writer notes that he or she will not call the recipient unless something esle happens with the child's case. Hopeful that she is out of danger.

  • More information
  • Medical problem reference
    Measles, Coughs