Letter 0529

Victor Ferguson to Hans Sloane – September 18, 1698


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Date: September 18, 1698
Author: Victor Ferguson
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 119-120



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Ferguson was intrigued by Colbatch’s writings on curing wounds. He asks for Sloane’s thoughts on the subject and offers his services to Sloane and his family. Victor Ferguson (d. 1729) was a physician of Newtown, near Belfast (Toby C. Bernard, A New Anatomy of Ireland: The Irish Protestants, 1649-1770 (Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2003), ch. 5; “Fergusons of Belfast” URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colin/FergusonsOfIreland/Belfast.htm).




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