John Morton to Hans Sloane – July 21, 1711
Item info
Date: July 21, 1711 Author: John Morton Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042 Folio: ff. 325-326
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Medical, Royal Society, Scholarship
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Subjects
Engravings
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Date (as written)
July 21, 1711
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
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Others mentioned
Mr Vandergucht
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Patients mentioned
Susanna Morton
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Transcription
Morton’s entire family has come down with smallpox. Mr Vandergucht engraved ‘the Natural Curiosities’ for him. John Morton was a naturalist who was in correspondence with Sloane from roughly 1703 to 1716. Morton contributed nearly one thousand specimens (fossils, shells, bones, teeth, minerals, rocks, man-made artifacts, etc.) to Sloane’s collection (Yolanda Foote, Morton, John (16711726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19364, accessed 2 July 2013]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Susanna Morton
Gender:
Age: -
Description
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Diagnosis
Smallpox.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
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Response: -
More information
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Medical problem reference
Smallpox, Smallpox, Smallpox