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Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle to Hans Sloane – n.d.
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Date: n.d.
Author: Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 157
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This morn I was surpriz’d with a message from my Uncle Pelham, ye he had turned off Dr. Pellat, and desir’d you would come to him three times a day, when I had never apprehended him in ye least danger. I must begg you would be so good as to attend him as constantly as possible, at least three times every day, and more if necessary. I hope you will excuse this trouble…
Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle under Lyme, served Sir Robert Walpole for over 20 years and became Prime Minister in the 1750s (Reed Browning, Holles, Thomas Pelham-, duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and first duke of Newcastle under Lyme (16931768), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21801, accessed 17 July 2013]).
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John Chesshyre to Hans Sloane – March 23, 1721/22
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Date: March 23, 1721/22
Author: John Chesshyre
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 219-220
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Sir John Chesshyre was a lawyer and one of the highest-earning counsel in Westminster Hall (David Lemmings, Chesshyre , Sir John (16621738), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5235, accessed 1 Sept 2011]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: Sir John Chesshyre
Gender:
Age:
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Description
Chesshyre 'had 3 stools this morning before 9', making him 'sick to [his] stomack'. He belches, hiccups, and vomits regularly, 'but nothing would come up. nor could [he] have a stool'.
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Diagnosis
He solicits Sloane's advice.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: He 'took the brown mixture. but wthout success'.
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: He feels 'dispirited', sick to his stomach, and is 'griped in the bowells. and Loyne'.
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Medical problem reference
Stomach, Diarrhea, Constipation, Hiccups
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James Jurin to Hans Sloane – August 12, 1723
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Date: August 12, 1723
Author: James Jurin
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: f. 32
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Jurin received a copy Deidier’s tract on tumours from Woolhouse. He forwards it to Sloane, who is to comment on it. Deidier hopes for a recommendation from Sloane.
James Jurin was a physician and natural philosopher, elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1717. He served the latter as secretary from 1721 to 1727 and edited several volumes of the Philosophical Transactions. He was a stalwart support of Newtonianism and collected meteorological data from contacts across the world (Andrea Rusnock, Jurin, James (bap. 1684, d. 1750), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15173, accessed 23 July 2013]).
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James Jurin to Hans Sloane – July 21 1723
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Date: July 21 1723
Author: James Jurin
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 18-19
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Name: Mrs. Sloane
Gender: Female
Age:
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Description
Mrs Sloane had a miscarriage 'which frighted her very much, & threw her into a great Hysterick disorder'.
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Diagnosis
Jurin thinks the fetus 'loosen'd some days before it came away' as a result of a long walk Mrs Sloane went on. Jurin adds: 'I hope for ye future she will be careful to follow your advice of using little Exercise'.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment: 'She will give ye Waters another Trial' and Sloane's advice would be followed.
Response:
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Medical problem reference
Hysteria, Miscarriage, Pregnancy
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John Thomas Woolhouse to Hans Sloane – July 20, 1723
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Date: July 20, 1723
Author: John Thomas Woolhouse
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 16-17
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Woolhouse is having trouble finding the two books Sloane requested. He sends ‘the new edition of Magnoli’s Hortus Monspeltensis’ and Deidier’s manuscripts, called ‘de morbis Venerois’. Sloane is to read and comment on the manuscripts. Abbé Bignon is taking the waters in Abcourt. Woolhouse offers his service to Sloane, adding that he has a correspondence network from ‘the Indies, Turky, Moscovy’ and elsewhere to utilize.
John Thomas Woolhouse was an English oculist and physician. He practiced physic in London, served James II for a time, and in 1711 secured a position at Paris’s Hospice des Quinze-Vingts. He served as the King of France’s oculist, was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1721, and a member of both the Berlin Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Sciences of Bologna. Woolhouse was criticized for charlatanry by some contemporaries (Anita McConnell, Woolhouse, John Thomas (16661734), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29954, accessed 17 July 2013]).
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John Hough to Hans Sloane – September 8, 1716
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Date: September 8, 1716
Author: John Hough
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 5
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Fol. 5
If I have been tardy in giving you account of myself so often as I ought to have done, it was not upon my word, that I wanted either leisure or inclination but only that I would not be troublesome. I know you have business enough for ye whole day, without having any of your time taken up, in reading or writing unnecessary letters and finding myself mend under ye directions you had given me, I did not think I ought to ask for more, or other. I continue in ye course you proscribed,(Blessed be God) with good success. The swelling I complain’d of is in a manner gone, nothing of it appears till towards bedtime and then it is so little, that nobody perceives it, (or will own they do) besides myself. I have a very good appetite to what I eat, I always digest well; evacuations are regular; and in short, people about me say, I look healthfully, and I am sure I find myself easy: so that I propose (with God’s leave) to be moving upwards about three weeks hence, and within a month, I hope to present to you in good plight…
John Hough was the President of Magdalen College, Oxford and the Bishop of Worcester. He published several anti-Catholic pamphlets during his career (Julian Lock, Hough, John (16511743), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13862, accessed 14 June 2011]).
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Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane – June 10, 1723
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Date: June 10, 1723
Author: Thomas Hearne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 3-4
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[fol. 3] Honoured Sir, On the 8th inst. Godfrey paid me 4 Guineas, wch I suppose might come from you; but having had no intimation abt. the person that sent it, I am doubtfull. I am, Sir, Your most obt. humble servant Tho. Hearne. Edm. Hall Oxon. 10th. 1723.
Thomas Hearne (bap. 1678, d. 1735) was an antiquary and diarist. He began working at the Bodleian Library in 1701. A nonjuror, his refusal to take an oath of allegiance to King George I led to his dismissal from the Bodleian in 1716. Hearne published the works of several English chroniclers (Theodor Harmsen, Hearne, Thomas (bap. 1678, d. 1735), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12827, accessed 2 June 2011]).
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Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle to Hans Sloane – n.d.
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Date: n.d.
Author: Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 153
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Fol. 153
I have been a good deal out of order this [we]ek in the manners I was when you [were] here last. My oddness in my head [comes] just before dinner, and is … a constant flushing just after dinner, … had determined to lay on a Blister [last] night but as I am to have a [goo]d many [burghers] on Monday with … I may drink plentifully they till … that will inflame the Blister, and … it very troublesome. So I begg you … send me word whither you think … have that course, or not, and what [you] would have me do…
Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle under Lyme, served Sir Robert Walpole for over 20 years and became Prime Minister in the 1750s (Reed Browning, Holles, Thomas Pelham-, duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and first duke of Newcastle under Lyme (16931768), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21801, accessed 17 July 2013]).
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James Salter to Hans Sloane – April 10, 1723
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Date: April 10, 1723
Author: James Salter
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: f. 342
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Salter sends what came to him by the post this morning.
James Salter was the owner of Salter’s Coffee House and at one time was a servant of Sir Hans Sloane. He accompanied the latter on his travels. His establishment was more commonly known as Don Saltero’s Coffee House and it was famous for its museum of curiosities from around the world (W. W. Wroth, Salter, James (d. c.1728), rev. P. E. Kell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24569, accessed 19 July 2013]).
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Henrietta Pelham-Holles, Duchess of Newcastle to Hans Sloane – n.d.
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Date: n.d.
Author: Henrietta Pelham-Holles, Duchess of Newcastle
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 162
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Fol. 162
I trouble you with this, to beg, that if you happen to see the Duke of Newcastle when you come thither, tomorrow, that you would not tell him, that you give Nanny the same powder, which you us’t to give him, for I fear it may make him think his case has been the same with him, which god forbid it should be, for I doubt [], has been very bad, but I hope she is better tonight, then she was, when you saw her, I am…
Henrietta Pelham-Holles (d. 1776) was born Henrietta Godolphin and married Thomas Pelham-Holles in 1717. She suffered from poor health throughout their marriage. They never had children (Reed Browning, ‘Holles, Thomas Pelham-, duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and first duke of Newcastle under Lyme (1693–1768)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21801, accessed 9 July 2014]).