Letter 3540

Short thanks Sloane for recommending him to Judge Jessop, who enlisted Short’s services to treat his wife. He has treated eleven of Lord Malton’s (Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham) servants. All recovered except one ‘old man who died’. Short describes the opposition of apothecaries to an unstated policy and discusses the medical methods of an apothecary who visited Sheffield. Short is unable to meet with Dr Mead. Thomas Short was a Scottish physician who settled in Sheffield. He traveled throughout England examining the medical effects of mineral waters and published works promoting their use in 1725 and 1766 (Norman Moore, Short, Thomas (c.16901772), rev. Patrick Wallis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25461, accessed 24 July 2013]).