Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane – September 10, 1721
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Date: September 10, 1721 Author: Richard Richardson Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046 Folio: ff. 130-131
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Medical, Scientific, Travel
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Subjects
Epidemics, Inoculation, Smallpox
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Date (as written)
September 10, 1721
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
North Bierley
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Others mentioned
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Patients mentioned
Unnamed
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Richardson writes of several people who suffered from the same ailment. It fell ‘chiefly amongst the poor people’. The epidemic killed many people. Patients have a ‘depressed pulse’ and ‘malignant fever’. The man who brought the illness from Lincolnshire is still alive, but has headaches. Richardson tried to contact the Consul, but he is traveling in France and Holland. He congratulates Sloane on the success of smallpox inoculation, noting that ‘it was practised in Asia long agoe’. Richardson was a physician and botanist who traveled widely in England, Wales, and Scotland in search of rare specimens. He corresponded and exchanged plants with many well-known botanists and naturalists (W. P. Courtney, Richardson, Richard (16631741), rev. Peter Davis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23576, accessed 31 May 2011]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Unnamed
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Description
Upon returning from Lincolnshire the man had 'a very great coldness all over his body and of an [...] weight over his eyes'. The man died a few days after.
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Medical problem reference
Death, Colds, Eyes, Convulsions, Death, Eyes, Convulsions, Death