John Ray to Hans Sloane – July 19, 1697
Item info
Date: July 19, 1697 Author: John Ray Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036 Folio: ff. 336-337
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Medical, Scholarship
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Subjects
Drawings, Entomology, Insects
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Date (as written)
July 19, 1697
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Black Notley
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Others mentioned
Margaret Ray
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Patients mentioned
John Ray
Original Page
Transcription
Ray shares with Sloane his excitement about a young German doctor lately in Black Notley and Braintree who is very skilled in drawing insects. 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
Gender:
Age:70 years old. -
Description
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Diagnosis
Ray claims that ulcers on his legs are almost healed, but that the tetter (a general term for any pustular herpetiform eruption) continues to spread unabated.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment:
Response:Ray does not mention what treatments he is currently using, but states that if his legs do not heal soon, he will apply mercury.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Skin ailments, Ulcerous Legs