Peter Barwick to Hans Sloane – July 18, 1690
Item info
Date: July 18, 1690 Author: Peter Barwick Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036 Folio: f. 90
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Medical, Patronage, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Business, Debts, Medical Practice, Payments
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Date (as written)
July 18, 1690
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Sherborne
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Others mentioned
Duchess of Albemarle More John Woodward
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Patients mentioned
Peter Barwick
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Transcription
Barwick thanks Sloane for the advice regarding his daughter. He asks Sloane to collect what is owed him from Mr More for tending to the Duchess of Albemarle. When Barwick saw More at the coffeehouse More told him he would pay him the next time they met. Barwick has not been paid, but he does not want to visit More, for if he goes to town he will be expected to pay his tailor’s bill ‘& some other debts unpaid’. Barwick cannot maintain a practice in London ‘upon 3 or 4 Patients only’. Mr Woodward ‘gives his humble service’ to Sloane. 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
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Patient info
Name: N/A Peter Barwick
Gender:
Age:71 years old. -
Description
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Diagnosis
Barwick had remained in London for a week in the hopes that his cataracts would be ready for couching; they were not.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: -
More information
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Medical problem reference
Eyes