Letter 2466

Thomas Dover to Hans Sloane – April 3, 1721


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Date: April 3, 1721
Author: Thomas Dover
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: f. 80



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[fol. 80] Sr This is to acquaint you that next Censors Day I shall appear to be examin’d in order to be admitted one of your Society yo’r Humble Serv: Tho: Dover To Sr Hans Sloan Bart. In Great Russell Street Bloomsbury Aprill 3:rd 1721

Thomas Dover (bap. 1662, d. 1742) was a physician, privateer, and licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians known for his ‘holistic’ remedies and criticisms of fellow physicians (Samuel Pyeatt Menefee, Dover, Thomas (bap. 1662, d. 1742), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7955, accessed 24 Aug 2011]).




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