Letter 3971

William Cockburn to Hans Sloane – January 30, 1693/94


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Date: January 30, 1693/94
Author: William Cockburn
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 159



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[fol. 159] Sir I was to have waited on you in order of visiting befor my examination for an Interlicentiate W Cockburn London Jan: 30th 1693/4

William Cockburn was a physician who wrote works on the diseases of seamen and published in the Philosophical Transactions. He had a large medical practice and claimed to have a secret remedy for dysentery (Charles Creighton, Cockburn, William (16691739), rev. Anita Guerrini, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5777, accessed 5 July 2013]).




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