John Ray to Hans Sloane – March 5, 1704
Item info
Date: March 5, 1704 Author: John Ray Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039 Folio: ff. 251-252
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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)
March 5, 1704
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Black Notley
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Others mentioned
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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:76 years old. -
Description
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Diagnosis
The recipe Ray is discussing is an antiscorbutic prescribed for Ray's leg sores.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment:Ray writes Sloane with a correction regarding Thomas Millington's antiscoributic recipe: not all ingredients are to be boiled in the wort, only the dock-roots, with the herbs to be put in a bag and hung in the vessel afterwards. See: Sloane MS 4039 f. 280 for the entire recipe.
Response: -
More information
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Medical problem reference
Leg Sores, Skin ailments, Injuries (includes wounds, sores, bruises)