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Henry Barham Jr. to Hans Sloane – May 21, 1726
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Date: May 21, 1726
Author: Henry Barham Jr.
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048
Folio: ff. 156-157
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Government, Legal, Library, Medical, Trade or Commodities, Travel
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Subjects
Books, Jamaica, Medicines, Natural History, South Sea Company, Wills
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Date (as written)
May 21, 1726
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Spanish Towne
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Others mentioned
Matthew Gregory
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Patients mentioned
Henry Barham Sr.
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Barham senior’s estate has been left to his wife. Barham junior and his sister are disappointed not to have received anything. He plans on purchasing his father’s books from his father’s widow, which include the ‘History of Jamaica wch he had butt just finished’. The book was discussed by the Jamaican Assembly and there are supposedly plans to have it ‘printed at ye Countreys expence’. Barham senior’s widow is thinking of selling the book privately. Barham junior delivered the second volume of the Natural History of Jamaica to his father before his death. The book has been borrowed by many people, as there are only two other copies on the island. Barham junior sells medicines. He hopes to make enough money to be able to settle in England. Dr Matthew Gregory did the same and made a fortune. Barham junior just received the letter Sloane had written to Barham senior. He will do the work his father said he would do for Sloane, involving the South Sea Company. Barham junior offers his service to Sloane.
Henry Barham junior was the son of Henry Barham, a surgeon, author of the Hortus Americanus, and correspondent of Sloane’s. Barham junior practiced medicine in Jamaica during the early eighteenth century, married into a wealthy family, sold his property, and moved to Staines, Middlesex in 1740 (T. F. Henderson, Barham, Henry (1670?1726), rev. Anita McConnell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1374, accessed 15 Aug 2013]).
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John Woodward to Hans Sloane – March 4, 1717/18
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Date: March 4, 1717/18
Author: John Woodward
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: f. 104
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[fol. 104] Gr. Coll. 4. Mar. 1717[/18].
Sr In Case you have any Commands, I write to Dr. Scheuchzer to Night: and intreat you to send them by the Bearer. I am Sr Your Most faithfull humble servant Woodward If [you] have the first Edition of H. Fabr. ab Agnapendide Motra Animalium, I intreat you to lend it me for a few Hours.
Woodward was a physician, natural historian and antiquary who expounded a theory of the earth in which fossils were creatures destroyed by the biblical flood. This embroiled him in a controversy in which he was opposed by John Ray, Edward Llwyd, Martin Lister, and Tancred Robinson (J. M. Levine, “Woodward, John (1665/1668-1728)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29946, accessed 17 June 2011]).
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Item info
Date:
Author: J.T.D.
Recipient: Petiver
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: f. 310
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[…]day
Sir,
All these things may be ready in a fortnights time.
I have set down the [price?] of every thing but the Painted
Glass, concerning which you may read at the bottom of the
note.
I am Sr your humble Servant
J.T.D.
25. 0. 0
1. 10. 0
1. 10. 0
3. 15. 0
2. 2. 0
1. 1. 6
3. 10. 0
0 10. 0.
28: 18: 6
Desaguliers provides Petiver with a list of prices for an unspecified quantity of commodities. Desaguliers was the son of French Huguenots who quit France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). He was a natural philosopher and engineer, became Sir Isaac Newton’s pupil, was a proponent of Newtonianism, and performed lectures and experiments at the Royal Society (Patricia Fara, Desaguliers, John Theophilus (16831744), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7539, accessed 12 July 2013]).
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John Morton to Hans Sloane – July 21, 1711
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Date: July 21, 1711
Author: John Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 325-326
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Morton’s entire family has come down with smallpox. Mr Vandergucht engraved ‘the Natural Curiosities’ for him.
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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Christopher Wren to Hans Sloane – March 23, 1710/11
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Date: March 23, 1710/11
Author: Christopher Wren
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 262-263
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[fol. 263] Whitehall Mar: 23d 1710 Dr. Sloan By my father’s direction a Modell is made of the room for the Repository of the Royal-Society in Crane Court, which may give the Gentlemen a better idea, then the designe on paper. It will be very light, very commodious, and the cheapest building that can be contrived: I have sent the Joyner with it to you, that you may take the opportunity to show at the Councill; it will be necessary not to loose the season of the year in the execution. I shall indeavour to attend the next meeting, and am
yr most obed.t hum.e servt.
Chr: Wren
Sir Christopher Wren was an architect, mathematician, astronomer, and member of the Royal Society (Kerry Downes, “Wren, Sir Christopher (1632-1723)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30019, accessed 3 June 2011]).
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Richard Middleton Massey to Hans Sloane – May 18, 1711
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Date: May 18, 1711
Author: Richard Middleton Massey
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 285-286
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Massey thanks Sloane sending the collection of books.
Kelsall was a Quaker minister and diarist who wrote predominantly on religious matters (Richard C. Allen, Kelsall, John (16831743), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/61965, accessed 9 June 2011]).
Richard Middleton Massey (1678-1743) attended Brasenose College, Oxford but left before obtaining a degree. In 1706 he was admitted Extra-Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and settled in Wisbech where he practiced medicine. Massey was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712. He compiled the catalogue of the library of the Royal College of Physicians in 1727 (http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2969).
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Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – August 18, 1711
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Date: August 18, 1711
Author: Patrick Blair
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 299-300
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Blair asks for Sloane’s opinion of the copper plates when he plans on publishing Blair’s ‘Treatise on the Elephant’.
Patrick Blair was a botanist and surgeon whose papers were published in the Transactions. In 1715 Blair joined the Jacobite rebellion as a battle surgeon but was captured and condemned to death. He was visited by Sloane in prison in the hopes the latter might secure a pardon. Sloane was successful and the pardon arrived shortly before Blair’s scheduled execution (Anita Guerrini, Blair, Patrick (c.16801728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2568, accessed 31 May 2011]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Patrick Balir's Friend's Son
Gender:
Age:
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Description
The boy 'was seizd with a violent pain in his left hypochondre' that lasted for three months. He has pain in his 'Lower extremities', which comes and goes. After Blair medicated him he suffered a 'severe fall'. His spine has been inspected, but there is nothing wrong with it.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Blair gave the boy 'Emeticks then purgatives and vermifuges [...] with stomachiks, hypochondriacks', which allayed the malady for a fortnight.
Ongoing Treatment: Cold bathing did the boy some good, giving him strength and reducing inflammation. Blaire applied 'strong penetrating Liniments along the spine'.
Response: Blair asks for Sloane's opinion.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Pain, Stomach, Inflammations, Back
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Richard Middleton Massey to Hans Sloane – June 23, 1711
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Date: June 23, 1711
Author: Richard Middleton Massey
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 301-302
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Massey informs Sloane that John Kelsall will be in London. He asks Sloane to pay Kelsall a visit and offer his medical opinion.
Kelsall was a Quaker minister and diarist who wrote predominantly on religious matters (Richard C. Allen, Kelsall, John (16831743), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/61965, accessed 9 June 2011]).
Richard Middleton Massey (1678-1743) attended Brasenose College, Oxford but left before obtaining a degree. In 1706 he was admitted Extra-Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and settled in Wisbech where he practiced medicine. Massey was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712. He compiled the catalogue of the library of the Royal College of Physicians in 1727 (http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2969).
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William Sherard to Hans Sloane – June 4, 1697
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Date: June 4, 1697
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 319
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Government, Patronage, Social, Trade or Commodities, Travel
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Subjects
Books, Cabinet, Parliament, Publishing, Recommendations
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Date (as written)
June 4, 1697
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
London
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Others mentioned
John Ray Antonio Bulifon Leonard Plukenet Bulifon's Son William Courten alias Charleton
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Patients mentioned
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The Bulifon brothers, printers in Naples, are the bearers of the letter. Sherard asks if Sloane can update the Builfons on the latest events in London and arrange a viewing of Charleton’s cabinet. The latest Act of Parliament ‘fryhtend [Sherard] from buying for books’. He heard Ray’s Appendix was published and more volumes are on the way. Sherard asks Sloane to provide the Bulifons with a contact in Oxford.
Sherard was a botanist and cataloguer. He worked for the Turkish Company at Smyrna where he collected botanical specimens and antiques (D. E. Allen, ‘Sherard, William (1659–1728)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25355, accessed 24 June 2011]).
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William Sherard to Hans Sloane – July 10, 1711
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Date: July 10, 1711
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 315-316
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Sherard tells Sloane of a Jesuit priest, Father Goree, who allowed him to use ‘his observatory […] near Santorina’. He is having some papers published in France that may be of interest to Sloane. The papers were previously presented to the Marquis de Feriot, Ambassador to ‘ye Porte’ (Ottomans).
Sherard was a botanist and cataloguer. He worked for the Turkish Company at Smyrna where he collected botanical specimens and antiques (D. E. Allen, Sherard, William (16591728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25355, accessed 24 June 2011]).