Étienne François Geoffroy to Hans Sloane – August 16, 1724
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Date: August 16, 1724 Author: Étienne François Geoffroy Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047 Folio: ff. 216-217
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French
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British Library, London
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Collections, Medical, Patronage, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, Scholarship, Scientific, Social
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Academie des sciences, Cabinet, Curiosities, Diseases, Inoculation, Memoires de l'Academie, Paris, Recommendations, Smallpox
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August 16, 1724
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a Paris
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Milard Barkley Duc d'Orleans
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Delisle, an astronomer at the Academie des sciences, is the bearer. Geoffroy has been busy with his medical practice and could not write earlier. He asks that Sloane show his cabinet to Delisle and take him to Royal Society meetings. He thanks Sloane for sending the Philosophical Transactions and observations on smallpox inoculation. Geoffroy sends the latest Memoires de l’academie. Several important persons in France have been inoculated over the past year. He describes the cases in detail. He also discusses the most common diseases in Paris. The Duc d’Orleans died. Milard Barkley purchased a notable remedy and published its recipe. Geoffroy is waiting impatiently for the second volume of Sloane’s Natural History of Jamaica. Etienne Francois Geoffroy (1672-1731) was an apothecary and physician who studied at Montpellier, like Sloane, and worked at the Jardin du Roi and College Royal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etienne_Francois_Geoffroy).
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