Letter 4268

Steigertahl received Sloane’s letter and the Philosophical Transactions. He read Mr Hales’ dissertation on the dissolution of stones. If the remedy can be made more effective it will be a boon for medical science. Mr Weidel sent a new book called ‘Institutiones juris natura et gentium methodo geometrica digesta’. A new domestic has started working for Mr Jäger, ‘l’Apoticaire de sa Majesté’. Steigertahl encloses everything that has come into his hands related to business from the ‘Messieurs les Medecins de Nuremburg’. Mrs Steigertahl sends her regards. Johann Georg Steigertahl (1666-1740) was the personal physician to George I of England. He was a member of the Royal Society and secured the purchase of Engelbert Kaempfer’s collection of East Asian curiosities for Sir Hans Sloane in 1723 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Steigerthal).