Letter 0313

Posted on August 2, 2016 by -

Peter Barwick to Hans Sloane – October 9, 1689


Item info

Date: October 9, 1689
Author: Peter Barwick
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 59-60


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Transcription

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
  • Treatment
    Previous Treatment:
    Ongoing Treatment:
    Response:

    The Powders prescribed by Barwick and Sloane have worked and the Duchess' fever has subsided.

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  • Medical problem reference
    Fevers