Letter 0870

Charles Hatton to Hans Sloane – September 13, 1703


Item info

Date: September 13, 1703
Author: Charles Hatton
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 182-183



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Transcription

Charles Hatton was the son of Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton and brother of Christopher Hatton, 1st Viscount Hatton [Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 269].




Patient Details

  • Patient info
    Name: Sir Christopher Hatton
    Gender:
    Age:
  • Description

    For further letters involving this case, see: Sloane MS 4039 ff. 176-177, 178-179, 184, 257-258.

  • Diagnosis

    Still troubled by phlegm, especially at night; wheezing.

  • Treatment
    Previous Treatment:
    Ongoing Treatment:

    Keill is giving Hatton's brother oxymel of squills, made of vinegar, honey, and bulbs of the 'squill Drimia maritima'.


    Response:

    No effect as of yet.

  • More information
  • Medical problem reference
    Phlegm, Lungs