James Yonge to Hans Sloane – August 16, 1709
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Date: August 16, 1709 Author: James Yonge Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042 Folio: ff. 35-38
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Medical, Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship, Scientific
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Books
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Date (as written)
August 16, 1709
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Origin (as written)
Plim'o
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Others mentioned
A. van Leeuwenhoek
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Unnamed
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Yonge mentions some medical treatises that interest him. James Yonge was a surgeon and physician of Plymouth with experience as a ship’s surgeon. He was a prominent citizen in his native Plymouth and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1702 (Ian Lyle, Yonge, James (16471721), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30225, accessed 20 May 2011]).
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A woman has a tumour in her stomach.
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Medical problem reference
Skin ailments, Cancer, Stomach, Pregnancy, Menstrual