Letter 1747

Massey asks that Sloane send a copy of Mr Dixon’s case and the Philosophical Transactions. Dr Stukeley lent Massey some books authored by Hermann Boerhaave. Sloane can forget about sending his own copies of Boerhaave’s work. Dr Williamson, of Chesire, authored an interesting ‘Pharmacopiea Lond. medicamenta’, which Massey may be publishing. He would like Sloane’s opinion of it and requests that interesting books be sent to him. Richard Middleton Massey (1678-1743) attended Brasenose College, Oxford but left before obtaining a degree. In 1706 he was admitted Extra-Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and settled in Wisbech where he practiced medicine. Massey was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712. He compiled the catalogue of the library of the Royal College of Physicians in 1727 (http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2969).