Letter 3267

Holland discusses a conflict having to do with the book ‘Origin of Prescriptions’. Sloane is unsatisfied with the copy he received. Holland tries to convince him it is acceptable. He has dissuaded Mr Kent from taking ‘an action’ against Sloane. Richard Holland was a physician and medical writer. He graduated MD in 1723 at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge. Holland was admitted a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1724, Censor in 1728, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1726. His book ‘Observations on the Small Pox’ was published in 1728. Holland died a bachelor in 1730 (Richard Holland (16881730): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13539, in Alan Cameron, Holland , John (16581721), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13531, accessed 15 Aug 2013]).