John Ray to Hans Sloane – August 27, 1701
Item info
Date: August 27, 1701 Author: John Ray Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038 Folio: ff. 223-224
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Medical
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Subjects
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Date (as written)
August 27, 1701
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Black Notley
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Others mentioned
Sr Thomas Millington
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Patients mentioned
John Ray
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Transcription
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:74 years old. -
Description
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Diagnosis
Diarrhea; painful leg sores.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
A Poor Woman's diet drink; oak bark, ribwort, mouse ear, comfrey, cinquefoil, all boiled in ale. Ray drank this for a week.
Ongoing Treatment:Sir Thomas Millington, believing that no outward applications would help, has prescribed a plum antiscorbutick diet drink, which Ray has taken for two weeks.
Response:The diet drink did not dry up Ray's sores, but it did cure his diarrhoea - the barrel of drink leaked and Ray lost the rest of the dose. He is not upset, believing that while the drink would eventually cure his sores, drinking so much of it would be bad for his health in other ways. Millington's diet drink is having no effect.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Injuries (includes wounds, sores, bruises), Diarrhoea, Legs, Ulcers, Stomach, Pain, Age, Skin ailments