Letter 3141

Thomas Fuller to Hans Sloane – January 6, 1725


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Date: January 6, 1725
Author: Thomas Fuller
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 309-310



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Fuller recommends the bearer, George Lake. He is a surgeon trained in pharmacy and has performed surgeries in Paris. Lake is looking for work near Covent Garden. Fuller asks for Sloane’s opinion of his letter on smallpox inoculation: Sloane MS 4047, fols. 302-303. Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) was a physician. He was admitted Extra-Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1678/9 and practiced medicine at Sevenoaks, in Kent (http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/1677).




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