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Herbinet to Hans Sloane – January 27, 1715


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Date: January 27, 1715
Author: Herbinet
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 14-15



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Herbinet thanks Sloane for receiving him during his stay in England. He would like to strike up a correspondence. Herbinet mentions Lavater and a meeting with some professors at Cambridge. He hopes that Sloane will count him among his colleagues. Herbinet forwards an excerpt from a text on treating hernias. See: Sloane MS 4044, fol. 16.




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