Letter 0314

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Peter Barwick to Hans Sloane – October 12, 1689


Item info

Date: October 12, 1689
Author: Peter Barwick
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 61


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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

    The Duchess' fever has gone down.

  • Treatment
    Previous Treatment:
    Ongoing Treatment:

    The Duchess is continuing to take Jesuit's Powder for her fever, as well as wearing warm clothes.


    Response:

    As the Duchess appears to have recovered, Barwick states that Jesuit's powder may no longer be necessary to prevent relapse into fever, as her blood is probably 'sufficiently impregnated with it for a while.'

  • More information
  • Medical problem reference
    Fevers