Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane – December 8, 1720
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Date: December 8, 1720 Author: Thomas Hearne Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075 Folio: ff. 222-223
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Medical
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Date (as written)
December 8, 1720
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Origin (as written)
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Others mentioned
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Patients mentioned
Thomas Herne
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Thomas Hearne (bap. 1678, d. 1735) was an antiquary and diarist. He began working at the Bodleian Library in 1701. A nonjuror, his refusal to take an oath of allegiance to King George I led to his dismissal from the Bodleian in 1716. Hearne published the works of several English chroniclers (Theodor Harmsen, Hearne, Thomas (bap. 1678, d. 1735), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12827, accessed 2 June 2011]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Thomas Herne
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Description
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Sloane gave him a prescription of opiate and an electuary for a cough and spitting blood. He also sought the aid of a neighboring physician whom he had known at Oxford who advised him against taking opiate and who bled him repeatedly. He took a glyster.
Ongoing Treatment:Sloane's prescription notes: Fontanole. superscapal. venesect. bodel vulner. cum caelo. vaccio. diacod.
Response:In the warm weather he was well but he had a relapse in October. He was free from the spitting for a while but had rheum on the lungs and terrible coughing, which made him weak because it kept him awake at night. He continued to be bled every morning and this "reduced me to the last extremity." He was too weak to go to London to meet with Sloane in person at this time.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Coughs, Lungs, Blood, Consumptions