Letter 0148

Posted on August 2, 2016 by -

Victor Ferguson to Hans Sloane – November 13, 1699


Item info

Date: November 13, 1699
Author: Victor Ferguson
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 124


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Transcription

Ferguson also notes that if Sloane gets any interesting books that he would appreciate to be made aware of them. Also sends his ‘hearty Love and service to Br William & his Lady’. Victor Ferguson (d. 1729) was a physician of Newtown, near Belfast (Toby C. Bernard, A New Anatomy of Ireland: The Irish Protestants, 1649-1770 (Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2003), ch. 5; “Fergusons of Belfast” URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colin/FergusonsOfIreland/Belfast.htm).



Patient Details

  • Patient info
    Name: N/A Victor Ferguson
    Gender:
    Age:
  • Description
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
    Previous Treatment:

    In a previous letter (Sloane MS 4075 f. 122) the author noted a long list of ailments including a tumour on his anus and piles. He also suffered from a stomach tumour and a disordered stomach. For all of the above he treated himself with various medicines and regimens. He noted that he had two friends who are doctors in Dublin who counseled him to do various "Rationall" courses of treatment. But he refused their advice and the advice of his relations. They all considered him to be a dead man.


    Ongoing Treatment:

    Despite the advice of everyone else he laid out a system of care for himself including diet.


    Response:

    The treatment he laid out (it is unclear as to whether Sloane gave him advice) made his stomach much better and he planned to go abroad for Christmas. He thanked Sloane for his advice of a "few easy and rationall medicins".

  • More information
  • Medical problem reference
    Stomach, Haemorrhoids