Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle to Hans Sloane – n.d.
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Date: n.d. Author: Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076 Folio: f. 153
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Medical
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Date (as written)
n.d.
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Origin (as written)
Newcastle House, London
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Others mentioned
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Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
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Fol. 153 I have been a good deal out of order this [we]ek in the manners I was when you [were] here last. My oddness in my head [comes] just before dinner, and is … a constant flushing just after dinner, … had determined to lay on a Blister [last] night but as I am to have a [goo]d many [burghers] on Monday with … I may drink plentifully they till … that will inflame the Blister, and … it very troublesome. So I begg you … send me word whither you think … have that course, or not, and what [you] would have me do…
Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle under Lyme, served Sir Robert Walpole for over 20 years and became Prime Minister in the 1750s (Reed Browning, Holles, Thomas Pelham-, duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and first duke of Newcastle under Lyme (16931768), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21801, accessed 17 July 2013]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
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Description
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Blisters.
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Medical problem reference
Head