John Ray to Hans Sloane – March 17, 1703/04
Item info
Date: March 17, 1703/04 Author: John Ray Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039 Folio: f. 274
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Medical, Scientific
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Subjects
Botany, China, Plants, Specimens
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Date (as written)
March 17, 1703/04
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Black Notley
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Others mentioned
James Petiver
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Patients mentioned
John Ray
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Transcription
Ray apologizes for keeping Sloane’s rare plants for so long. He will describe them to make up for it. He had wanted to compare Sloane’s Chinese plants with Petiver’s, but Petiver has yet to send his. 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
One of his small leg ulcers 'all of a sudden bubbled up like a fountain', to a degree that had to be seen to believed, and ran for 5 days; weakness that makes it so he cannot stand alone or rise from his chair; a fever that turned into a sweat; the skin of one of his insteps 'by degrees turned black' and now is rotted and corrupted with copious gleet.
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Treatment
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Ongoing Treatment:
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Gleet, Fevers, Leg Sores, Skin ailments, Pain, Injuries (includes wounds, sores, bruises), Inflammations