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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]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
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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James Yonge to Hans Sloane – August 21, 1709
Item info
Date: August 21, 1709
Author: James Yonge
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 44-45
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Yonge thanks Sloane for offering to forward Dr Cyprianus’s letter and asks him for an address. He comments on the work of ‘The Black mayd’ and Dr Charlton’s case ‘of the Leo: man’.
James Yonge was a surgeon and physician of Plymouth with experience as a ship’s surgeon. He was a prominent citizen in his native Plymouth and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1702 (Ian Lyle, Yonge, James (16471721), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30225, accessed 20 May 2011]).
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John Percival was a politician, diarist, First Earl of Egmont, and and an instrumental figure in the founding of the North American colony of Georgia.
Reference:
Betty Wood, ‘Perceval, John, first earl of Egmont (1683-1748)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21911 [accessed 24 Aug 2011]).
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
Relationship to Sloane:
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Thomas Dover (bap. 1662, d. 1742) was a physician, privateer, and licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians known for his ‘holistic’ remedies and criticisms of fellow physicians.
Reference:
Samuel Pyeatt Menefee, ‘Dover, Thomas (bap. 1662, d. 1742)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7955 [accessed 24 Aug 2011]).
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
Relationship to Sloane:
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Nehemiah Grew to Hans Sloane – August 5, 1709
Item info
Date: August 5, 1709
Author: Nehemiah Grew
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 30-31
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[fol. 30]
Sr,
If you can remember such a
trifle, I once asked your leav to come a begg-
ing to you for some of your Jamaican Trea-
sure; which I obteined of you. And if I
may have the favour of your notice, when
you will be found at home, and at leisure, I
will waite upon you at your time. I am
Sr
Your humble
serv’t
N Grew
5th Augst. 1709
Grew was a botanist and physician who, in 1677, was appointed joint secretary of the Royal Society along with Robert Hooke (Michael Hunter, “Grew, Nehemiah (bap. 1641, d. 1712)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11521, accessed 11 May 2011]).
Posted on February 26, 2017 by Amy Smith -
Abraham Hill (bap. 1635-d.1722) was Secretary to the Royal Society. He managed its correspondence.
Reference:
Lotte Mulligan, ‘Hill, Abraham (bap. 1635, d. 1722)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13265 [accessed 9 July 2015]).
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
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Henry Newman to Hans Sloane – 20th Nov.r 1734
Item info
Date: 20th Nov.r 1734
Author: Henry Newman
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053
Folio: f. 320
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Sir
The Society are very much oblig’d to you for the honour you did ’em yesterday, and for the Motion you was pleas’d to make in behalf of the Protestant Saltzburgers, according to which a Memorial to the late Earl of Thanet’s Trustees is here inclosed, with a Request that you would be pleas’d to recomend it as you have occasion to the Hon,ble Persons it is address’d to .
I am Sir yo.r most Obedient
humble Servant
Henry Newman
Bartlet’s Buildings
20th Nov.r 1734
Henry Newman (1670-1743) was Secretary for The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. He graduated BA and MA from Harvard, worked as a librarian, and entered the commercial fishing industry in Newfoundland until 1703 when he settled in England to work for the Society (Leonard W. Cowie, ‘Newman, Henry (1670–1743)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39693, accessed 14 Aug 2015]).
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Thomas Shaw to Hans Sloane – Nov. 29. 1734
Item info
Date: Nov. 29. 1734
Author: Thomas Shaw
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053
Folio: f. 327
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Shaw writes to Sloane about sending him a small task of il via coach which he should receive on Thursday. He took a small tour around the Island and talks of needing rain. He will be coming home to Oxford via London and would like to stop and give Sloane an account of his transactions.
Thomas Shaw (1694-1751) was a traveller of North Africa and the Near East. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1734. Shaw was Chaplain to the English Factory at Algiers. He later served as Chaplain of St. Edmund Hall and Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford. His book ‘Travels, or, Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant’ was published in 1738 (Peta Rée, ‘Shaw, Thomas (1694–1751)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25269, accessed 28 Aug 2014]).
Posted on February 23, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
John Craig (c. 1663-1731) was a mathematician and Church of England clergyman.
Reference:
Andrew I. Dale, ‘Craig, John (c.1663–1731)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6577, accessed 23 July 2014].
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
Relationship to Sloane:
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Tho. Hyde to Wanley – Easter Munday.
Item info
Date: Easter Munday.
Author: Tho. Hyde
Recipient: Wanley
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: ff. 386-387
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Library, Scholarship, Social
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Subjects
Book Seller, Books, China, Copper Plates, Foreign Books, Plants, Publishing, Subscriptions, Translations
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Date (as written)
Easter Munday.
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
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Others mentioned
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Patients mentioned
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Easter Munday.
Mr Wanley,
I am glad to hear from you, and to finde you are well, and that you are
in employment, wch I hope is good, tho you do not tell me. I have orderd
6 copies of my Book to be delivered to Mr Calloye against Bedford house,
and I shall wait for your procurement of my mony at the time
appointed. At your leisure, consider a little of what I am about to propose.
Through the faileur of subscriptions, even of those who had promisd
a great number of my copies do remain on my hand, about 200.
I have letters from Holland and France which let me know that they
are well approved abroad, wch makes me think they woud pass off
well in Exchange for forreigne Books: and that therfore: it might
be the interest of some Bookseller to take of all my copies and make
them entirely his own, that so no man might knoe them but only
from him. And when the Latine copies are …… well gon off from him,
it might again be his interest to turn it into English for our English
gentry, in wch you would be the fittest person for him to Employ And if
turned into English, I have added many Additions and made some good
Emendations wch I shall upon that occasion willingly comunicate And to
all this I further say, that he shall have the use of my copper
plates wch did cost me much mony, and would cost him the ….
if he were to engrave them [….]. I can also supply one new plate
about the business of the [Tartars?] above china, and another about
the Plant Ribas, wch is a rarity unknown to our Botanists, who will
there be soe [the?] …… of their [anywhere?] about it.
Dr Ch…. had lately with him some London Bookseller who was desirous of
some of my Books by way of exchange and bes… mr [Slon?] [fast?] to [our?]
about it. To wch I answered consentingly if they were such Books as would be
[…]… off by the […]… library, […] not else re.[…] friend Tho. Hyde
My wife is now in London at …. …….. in Bridges street co..nt.a….
If only man shall wish …for the whole number he shall have found abatement from the ….. ….
Bottom of letter is damaged resulting in several incomplete words near the end of transcription. Thomas Hyde discusses his book with Mr. Wanley. Due to the failure of subscriptions, Hyde has almost 200 copies in his possession. Hyde’s book received positive feedback from France and Holland, which makes him think “they woud pass off well in Exchange for forreigne Books[.]” Hyde mentions his wife and two other individuals but their names cannot be accurately deciphered: [Dr Ch….?] and [mr Slon?]. Hyde was the librarian of the Bodleian Library from 1665 to 1701. He possessed excellent linguistic skills in eastern languages, especially ancient Persian and Arabic (P. J. Marshall, Hyde, Thomas (16361703), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14336, accessed 19 June 2013]).
