John Thomas Woolhouse to Hans Sloane – September 20, 1725
Item info
Date: September 20, 1725 Author: John Thomas Woolhouse Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048 Folio: ff. 64-65
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Medical, Patronage, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Books, Booksellers, Jamaica, Journal des Scavans, Natural History, Opthalmology, Recommendations
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Date (as written)
September 20, 1725
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Paris
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Others mentioned
Dr. John Freind Abbe Jean Paul Bignon
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Patients mentioned
Unnamed
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Transcription
Abbé Bignon thanks Sloane for sending the second volume of his Natural History of Jamaica. It has not yet ‘come to his hands’ because the Ambassador at Fontainebleau is absent. Woolhouse hopes Sloane’s bookseller sends copies of the first volume so the two volumes can be sold together, increasing sales. He discusses recent scholarship in the ‘Journal des Scavants’ and the ‘Journal des Trevaux’. Abbé Bignon wants a copy of Dr Freind’s new book. The surgeon Sloane recommended to Woolhouse turned out to know little about opthalmology. John Thomas Woolhouse was an English oculist and physician. He practiced physic in London, served James II for a time, and in 1711 secured a position at Paris’s Hospice des Quinze-Vingts. He served as the King of France’s oculist, was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1721, and a member of both the Berlin Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Sciences of Bologna. Woolhouse was criticized for charlatanry by some contemporaries (Anita McConnell, Woolhouse, John Thomas (16661734), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29954, accessed 17 July 2013]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Unnamed
Gender:
Age: -
Description
Abbé Bignon's brother has suffered apoplectic fits.
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Diagnosis
Apoplexy.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment:Woolhouse solicits Sloane's advice.
Response: -
More information
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Medical problem reference
Apoplexy