Patrick Dun to Hans Sloane – January 26, 1705/06
Item info
Date: January 26, 1705/06 Author: Patrick Dun Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040 Folio: ff. 124-125
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Government, Medical
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Subjects
Parliament, Petitions
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Date (as written)
January 26, 1705/06
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Dublin
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Others mentioned
Dr. Stevins Dr. Cummyng King William
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Patients mentioned
Ardglass
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Transcription
Dun and Cummying have a petitioned the House of Commons, seeking the pay they are entitled to for military service in Ireland. Sir Patrick Dun (1642-1713) graduated in arts at Merichal College in 1658 and studied at Valence in France. He became doctor of Physic of Trinity College, Dublin and in 1677 incorporated in absentia MD at Oxford. Dun was appointed physician to the state and to James, Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and elected one of 14 Fellows of the Irish College of Physicians. He was elected president of the College from 1681 to 1687. In 1683, he was one of the founding members of the Dublin Philosophical Society. Dun supported the study of Anatomy and arranged dissections of human bodies. He became one of the leading physicians in Dublin. In 1688, he supported the Willamite side and fled the country until 1689 when he was appointed physician to King Williams army. He was reelected president of the Irish College of Physicians in 1690, 1692, 1696, 1698 and 1706. Dun was married in 1694 and knighted in 1696. In 1705, he was appointed physician to the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham. Dun died in 1713 after a short illness. (Davis Coakley, “Dun, Sir Patrick (16421713)”, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: Lady Ardglass
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Description
Ardglass claims she has had tumours, such one in her side, for many years now and they have never given her any trouble.
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Diagnosis
Tumour in the right side.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment:Doctors Cummyng and Stevins agreed with Sloane on a 'plaster de risuto lim ammoniaro'; each day the Lady took a small draught of 'derothom smanicirn altenoms'; some drops of 'tinetrina monetus'; 3 or 4 pills of 'ammoniasurm myrrha lastoucum'.
Response:The plaster did nothing to suppress the tumour, despite six days' treatment. The other medicines have made her stomach tolerable.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Stomach, Tumour