Letter 0311

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Peter Barwick to Hans Sloane – September 25, 1689


Item info

Date: September 25, 1689
Author: Peter Barwick
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 57


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Peter Barwick (1619-1705) was a physician. He served Charles II in 1651 and was censor of the College of Physicians in 1674, 1684, and 1687. Sir Hans Sloane was one of the executors of Barwick’s will (Peter Elmer, ‘Barwick, Peter (1619–1705)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1614, accessed 9 July 2014]).



Patient Details

  • Patient info
    Name: Lady Elizabeth Monck (nee Cavendish), Duchess of Abemarle
    Gender:
    Age:
  • Description

    [Lady Elizabeth Monck, nee Cavendish, later married Ralph Montagu, Duke of Montagu. Cokayne, Complete Peerage, vol. 1, p. 90.]

  • Diagnosis

    Nothing is given to indicate her illness other than that she has been 'so ill'.

  • Treatment
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    Response:

    Barwick states in a post-script that he has recommended to the Duchess to 'go warmer both by night and day' than she has formerly.

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    Unspecified