William North to Hans Sloane – December 19, 1712
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Date: December 19, 1712 Author: William North Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076 Folio: f. 166
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Medical
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Date (as written)
December 19, 1712
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Others mentioned
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Patients mentioned
Maria North
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Fol. 166 My wife being taken ill of a fever a great pain in her head. I send this to desire you will come down and see her. I send up my coach to wait on you what time you please and I expect from [our?] acquaintance ye fond of seeing you in ye morning tomorrow…
William North (1678-1734), 6th Baron North, 2nd Baron Grey of Rolleston, and Jacobite Earl North was an army officer. He married Maria Margarette (1690?-1762) in 1705, the daughter of Holland’s treasurer. He was involved in Jacobite plots after the South Sea Bubble crash (Lawrence B. Smith, ‘North, William, sixth Baron North, second Baron Grey of Rolleston, and Jacobite Earl North (1678–1734)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20317, accessed 9 July 2014]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: Duchess Maria North
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Description
Fever; great pain in the head.
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Medical problem reference
Fevers, Head