Letter 3737

Woolhouse hopes the 5 theses, dissertation, and books he sent with Robinson, Buckley, and Zollman have reached Sloane. The dissertation was written by Thomas Carte in opposition to Monsieur Morand’s work. The loss of his wife had an effect on Beaumont Woolhouse’s health. Woolhouse hopes that Beaumont will travel to London next month. The withdrawal of Horace Walpole will be regretted in Paris. 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]).