Letter 4256

Short has not had occassion to write as of late. He asks if there is anything ‘in our manufactury that woud be acceptable to you’. Short was glad to hear of Sloane’s success in treating Lord Malton’s (Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham) youngest daughter. He would like know what she was sick with. Short was not consulted when the girl was in town, as another physician was consulted. He discusses what the other doctor prescribed. Short requests a book from Sloane. He tried to procure it from Leiden, but to no avail. 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]).