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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane – May 8, 1731
Item info
Date: May 8, 1731
Author: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: ff. 229-230
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a Swiss scholar and physician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703 and his work was published in the Philosophical Transactions. In 1708 his Itinera aplina tira was published in London. It was dedicated to the Royal Society. His largest project was the Itinera per Helvetiae alpines regions facta annis 1702-1711, dedicated to his travels and published in four volumes in 1723 at Leiden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Scheuchzer).
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Robert Hales to Hans Sloane – November 3, 1718
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Date: November 3, 1718
Author: Robert Hales
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: f. 164
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Hales requests that Sloane allow ‘the Count de Reiss, Mr Bentenreider, Mr Fabrice Envoy from hosltein, Mr d’Aremberg of hanover, Baron Brandenstein of Presden, & one or two more of their Friends’ to view his cabinet of curiosities. Its fame has made it a necessary stop on any tour of England.
Robert Hales worked at the Council Office.
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Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni to Hans Sloane – June 8, 1731
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Date: June 8, 1731
Author: Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: f. 250
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Zamboni thanks Sloane for ‘getting [his] nephew admitted into the Royal Society’. Everything destined for Dresden is in his possession and ‘whatever you purpos to send to Dr. Heucher will be ready’.
Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni was the Chargé d’Affaires of the Prince of Darmstadt in England.
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Thomas Molyneux was a physician and natural philosopher who corresponded with Sloane, Edward Lhuyd, and John Locke
Reference:
(J. B. Lyons, Molyneux, Sir Thomas, first baronet (16611733), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18927, accessed 4 July 2011]).
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Occupation: Unknown
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Thomas Short to Hans Sloane – August 21, 1731
Item info
Date: August 21, 1731
Author: Thomas Short
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: f. 315
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A mathematician left Sloane’s things with Short. He will return the items, including ‘penknives’, soon.
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]).
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Nicholaes Corneliszoon Witsen (1641-1717) was a politician and collector. He was appointed for thirteen terms as Burgomaster of Amsterdam. He corresponded widely with Leibniz, several Jesuits, and the Royal Society, of which he was elected a fellow in 1689.
Reference;
Benjamin Schmidt, ‘Witsen, Nicholaes Corneliszoon (1641–1717)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/68404, accessed 17 July 2014].
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Occupation: Unknown
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John Morton to Hans Sloane – August 29, 1706
Item info
Date: August 29, 1706
Author: John Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 210-211
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John Morton was a naturalist who was in correspondence with Sloane from roughly 1703 to 1716. Morton contributed nearly one thousand specimens (fossils, shells, bones, teeth, minerals, rocks, man-made artifacts, etc.) to Sloane’s collection (Yolanda Foote, Morton, John (16711726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19364, accessed 2 July 2013]).
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Name: N/A Unnamed
Gender:
Age:A girl.
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Description
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Diagnosis
Greensickness; body swollen in reaction to vomiting.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Was prescribed vomits.
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: Morton believes the vomiting was caused by the quality, not the quantity, of the purgative. The swelling was caused by the great mass of cheese and phlegm in the girl's system keeping the vomit from coming up as it should have.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Swelling, Greensickness, Birth Defect, Anus Imperforate
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Edmund Gibson (bap. 1669, d. 1748) was a clergyman. He served as Bishop of Lincoln and Bishop of London
Reference:
Stephen Taylor, Gibson, Edmund (bap. 1669, d. 1748), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10615, accessed 21 June 2013].
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John Arbuthnot was a physician and satirist most famous for his John Bull pamphlets which led to the character becoming a national symbol.
Reference:
Angus Ross, ‘Arbuthnot , John (bap. 1667, d. 1735)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/610, accessed 14 June 2011].
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Edward Lhwyd (1659/60-1709) was a naturalist and philologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1708. Sir Hans Sloane described him as the best naturalist in Europe.
Reference:
Brynley F. Roberts, Lhuyd , Edward (1659/60?1709), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16633, accessed 26 June 2013].
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