Arthur Rawdon to Hans Sloane – March 30, 1692
Item info
Date: March 30, 1692 Author: Arthur Rawdon Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036 Folio: ff. 115-116
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Medical, Social
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Subjects
Fungi, Gossip
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Date (as written)
March 30, 1692
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Moyra [Moira, County Down, Ireland]
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Others mentioned
James Sloane Brother William Sherard
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Patients mentioned
Arthur Rawdon
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Transcription
Rawdon received Sloane’s last letter. He wants to know how ‘we can be most serviceable’ to Mrs Bayly. Captain Maxwell is apparently courting Sloane’s sister (Alice). Rawdon wonders ‘w’t is become of James. I fear he has a designe to cheat me for I can not hear the least thing from him… Mr Sherard has this year found many new funguses’. Sir Arthur Rawdon (1662-1695), 2nd Baronet was the son of Sir George Rawdon, 1st Baronet and Hon. Dorothy Conway. Arthur married Helena Garham circa February 1681/2 (George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume III, page 318).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: Sir Arthur Rawdon
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Age: -
Description
Kept to his bed for most of the winter. He suffered from gout and pleurisy 'three or four times a year since [he] left Derry in 88'.
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Diagnosis
Self-diagnosed gout and pleurisy; he never has one without the other.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: -
More information
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Medical problem reference
Pleurisy, Gout