Letter 1853

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James Keill to Hans Sloane – July 17, 1712


Item info

Date: July 17, 1712
Author: James Keill
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 60-61


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Keill did not formally attend medical school, but through the patronage of Sloane he obtained the degree of MD from Cambridge. Sloane helped Keill enter into medical practice in Northampton (Anita Guerrini, Keill, James (16731719), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15255, accessed 2 June 2011]).



Patient Details

  • Patient info
    Name: N/A Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds
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  • Description

    Osborne's condition has not improved since Sloane saw him. He has a fever and is 'exremely high headed'. He has a 'pain in his side' and regurgitates everything he takes in. His 'pulse intermitted, he had twitchings of the Tendons, and was all in cold clammy sweats'. His symptoms disappeared at noon, but returned later in the day. He urinates frequently and 'made a great plenty of water [...] and voided a small stone'. He continues to have trouble keeping anything in his stomach.

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  • Treatment
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  • Medical problem reference
    Stone, Sweats, Vomiting, Tendons, Urinary, Stomach, Headache, Fevers