Letter 2439

Posted on August 2, 2016 by -

John Purcell to Hans Sloane – November 28, 1720


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

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 45-46


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Purcell had intended to write his examination at the College ‘in Sept: last’, but was ‘prevented by unforseen Accidents’. Dr Plumbtree told him that he should write the exam ‘before the new Censors who were soon to be chose’. 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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    Name: N/A John Purcell
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  • Description

    The previous November, while on his way from Bath to London to write an exam, Purcell's 'chariot unfortunately' overturned and 'the Glass cut the inside of [his] left Rist to the very bone'. His hand became swollen 'and [had] been laid upon in 6 or 7 places'. He now experiences anxiety whenever he rides in his chariot.

  • Diagnosis

    Anxiety.

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  • Medical problem reference
    Injuries (includes wounds, sores, bruises), Inflammations, Anxiety, Mental Illness