John Ray to Hans Sloane – June 23, 1696
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Date: June 23, 1696 Author: John Ray Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036 Folio: ff. 238-239
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Library, Medical, Scholarship
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Subjects
Books, Botany, Natural History of Jamaica
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Date (as written)
June 23, 1696
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Origin (as written)
Black Notley
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Others mentioned
Johann Philipp Breyne Margaret Ray Leonard Plukenet Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Charles Plumier
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Patients mentioned
John Ray
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Ray thanks Sloane for the book. He praises Sloane’s ‘industry & patience in reading & comparing such a multitude of Relations & Accounts of voyages’. Ray is especially impressed with Sloane’s simple method of classification. He is going to undertake more research and inform Sloane of anything he finds that may be of use. Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A John Ray
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Ray has 'been lately very ill & indisposed with a hoarseness & violent cough attended with a feaverish heat, of wch I am not yet fully recovered'.
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Medical problem reference
Coughs, Throat, Fevers