Richard Middleton Massey to Hans Sloane – November 23, 1717
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Date: November 23, 1717 Author: Richard Middleton Massey Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045 Folio: ff. 72-73
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English
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British Library, London
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Legal, Patronage, Royal Society, Scientific, Social
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Latin, Medicaments, Networks, Patents
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November 23, 1717
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Wisbech
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Mr Alban Thomas
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Massey thanks Sloane for advising him on patenting his mustard oil. He wants ‘an Approbation from the Physitians and members of the Royall Society made publick’. Massey left a bottle of the mustard oil with Alban Thomas should the Royal Society wish to examine it. He asks for contacts in foreign countries to send his ‘latine epistle’ to. 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).
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