Letter 2411

John Purcell to Hans Sloane – July 28, 1720


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Date: July 28, 1720
Author: John Purcell
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: f. 353



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[fol. 353] London July ye 28th 1720 Hond Sir I call’d to wait on you, in order to my Examination at the Colledge of Physitians who am Hon’d Sr your very humble servant J Purcell

Purcell studied medicine at the University of Montpellier where he was a student of Pierre Chirac, a correspondent of Sloane’s. He published a ‘A Treatise of the Cholick’ in 1714 and was admitted a member of the Royal College of Physicians, London in 1730 (Norman Moore, Purcell, John (c.16741730), rev. Patrick Wallis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22895, accessed 17 June 2011]).




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