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Victor Ferguson to Hans Sloane – July 23, 1700
Item info
Date: July 23, 1700
Author: Victor Ferguson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 38-39
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Victor Ferguson (d. 1729) was a physician of Newtown, near Belfast (Toby C. Bernard, A New Anatomy of Ireland: The Irish Protestants, 1649-1770 (Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2003), ch. 5; “Fergusons of Belfast” URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colin/FergusonsOfIreland/Belfast.htm).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Unnamed Gentleman
Gender:
Age:60 years old.
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Description
If the patient went longer than four hours without eating or drinking, he became 'insensibly positive and willful'; he spit constantly (clear spittle), and became senseless, recognizing no one. He staggered around like a drunk for a considerable time, and then sank down, foaming, and 'would choke if left alone'. When on horseback, he reeled side to side and bent backwards until he fell off; the patient slept soundly, but foamed while doing so, and could not be left unsupervised. If one attempted to feed the patient mid-episode, he thrashed and resisted.
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Diagnosis
'A species of epilepsy' which Ferguson has not encountered before.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment: Ferguson obtained the patient's consent to trigger an episode so he could observe; the patient remembered nothing afterward. By regulating the patient's diet (eating every four hours), Ferguson was attempting to manage the episodes.
Response:
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Medical problem reference
Age, Eyes, Dizziness, Epilepsy, Balance
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Victor Ferguson to Hans Sloane – May 10, 1700
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Date: May 10, 1700
Author: Victor Ferguson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 14-15
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Ferguson states that he rarely writes letters of recommendation. He asks Sloane to give Mr Taylor, a surgeon, some of his time. John McBride offers his services to Sloane.
Victor Ferguson (d. 1729) was a physician of Newtown, near Belfast (Toby C. Bernard, A New Anatomy of Ireland: The Irish Protestants, 1649-1770 (Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2003), ch. 5; “Fergusons of Belfast” URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colin/FergusonsOfIreland/Belfast.htm).
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Sloane Catalogues and Databases
Ficus maxima. Sloane’s label is at the foot of page 79 verso in volume 7:80. It refers to the pencil sketch from life on this page. The pencil sketch was inked by Kickius (not signed). There is no specimen of this plant. (Entry by C. D. Adams) Source: Natural History Museum, The Sloane Herbarium, ID 970.
Much of the Sloane correspondence is available on microfilm. The Adam Matthews guide also has a list of all the correspondents in the collection.
You can search for individual volumes (e.g. ‘Sloane MS 4038’) to look at the correspondents and order of letters in each volume.
Fancy a look at the 8695 objects at the British Museum that belonged to Sloane?
Exciting new project at the British Museum and University College London that aims to understand the structure of Sloane’s catalogues and collections.
This project brings together the printed books that once belonged to Sloane, some of which were dispersed far beyond the British Library.
Given Sloane’s longstanding participation in the Royal Society, particularly as Secretary and President, it is not surprising that he appears frequently in the Royal Society archives.
You can explore the botanical specimens of Sloane’s herbarium, as well as learn about how they have been preserved.
A project to explore the possibility of digitally reunify Sloane’s collections that are now held at the British Library, British Museum, and Natural History Museum.
Maria Sibylla Merian, Muscovy duck with snake (ca. 1701-1705). Credit: British Museum, SL,5275.78 .
Collectors and Correspondents
A project about seventeenth-century collectors, many of who overlap with the Sloane correspondence.
A Cultures of Knowledge that aims to make the correspondence of the Republic of Letters more findable. There are letters by Sloane listed here, as well as many of his correspondents.
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John Ray to Hans Sloane – October 10, 1701
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Date: October 10, 1701
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 250-251
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[fol. 250] Sir the occasion of my giving you the trouble of a […] is to entreat Your assistance in dispatching the enclosed to Dr Preston. I am still busie in adding new species to my Supplement Dr Sherard hath lately sent me a parcell of about 230 dried plants, received from the Prince of Catholica, most of them new & unknown to me, all of them growing in the Hort. Cathol. I am also to make but slow progresse, by the reason of the pains & trouble I labour under. Our undertakers are very slack & remisse in printing this Supplemt. The time is past when they should have published it, & they have not yet begun it. I hear nothing of them I have sent up to Dr Hotton, at his request, a Method of grasses, such as one as I was able to draw up in the circumstances I am now in. My Wife & girls give You their humble services. I am not unsensible of my obligations to you, & return a gratefull memory of them though unable to make You any amends. & therefore must remain Sr, Your most obliged friend & servant John Ray Black Notley Octob. 10. 1701
Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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James Keill to Hans Sloane – July 31, 1711
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Date: July 31, 1711
Author: James Keill
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 338-339
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Keill did not formally attend medical school, but through the patronage of Sloane he obtained the degree of MD from Cambridge. Sloane helped Keill enter into medical practice in Northampton (Anita Guerrini, Keill, James (16731719), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15255, accessed 2 June 2011]).
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Patient info
Name: Lord Lempster
Gender:
Age:
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Description
Lempster's 'Dropsey is very much encreased' since Keill last wrote Sloane. He suffers from a loss of appetite, constant 'spiteing up', and frequent vomiting. Lempster expels more fluid than he takes in. '[H]is Belly, Hips Sides, and thighs are so hard that all Gestures are uneasie to him'.
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Diagnosis
Lady Lempster wants Sloane to visit and advise them.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Keill had Lempster purged the previous Monday and is going to have him vomited in the next day or so.
Ongoing Treatment:
Response:
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Medical problem reference
Back, Vomiting, Dropsy, Inflammations, Stomach
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Johann Philipp Breyne to Hans Sloane – March 31, 1704
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Date: March 31, 1704
Author: Johann Philipp Breyne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 282-286
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Language
Latin
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship, Scientific, Travel
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Subjects
Botany, Catalogues, Entomology, Illustrations, Insects, Italy, Spain
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Date (as written)
March 31, 1704
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Padua, Italy
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Others mentioned
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Patients mentioned
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Breyne details his travels in Italy and Spain, including a list of scientists and physician he met along the way. He describes the countryside, flora, and insect life of Altea, Spain. He catalogues the plants and insects he collected. Breyne encloses illustrations of the insects. He passes on greetings to his English friends. The letter was published in Philosophical Transactions 1704-1705 24, 2045-2055.
Johann Philipp Breyne (1680-1764) was a German botanist, zoologist, and entomologist known primarily for his work on the Polish cochineal, or Porphyrophora polonica, used in red dye production. He became a fellow of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1715 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Philipp_Breyne).
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Johann Philipp Breyne to Hans Sloane – October 3, 1704
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Date: October 3, 1704
Author: Johann Philipp Breyne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 369-370
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Material Culture, Royal Society, Scientific, Social, Trade or Commodities, Travel
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Subjects
Books, Catalogues, Correspondence, Entomology, Experiments, Glassware, Insects, Lost, Post
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Date (as written)
October 3, 1704
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Amsterdam
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Others mentioned
Antonio Vallisneri Sir Isaac Newton John Ray Henry de Gols
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Patients mentioned
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Breyne was disappointed to hear his letter from Rome did not reach London because there was a curious account therein. He thanks Sloane for a book and is eager to see Sir Isaac Newton’s new ‘Burning Glass’. Breyne wants to see Ray’s new work on insects and desires a catalogue of the fellows of the Royal Society. These are to be sent with the merchant Henry de Gols. Breyne is thinking of spending the winter in Danzig. Dr Vallisneri wants permission to write Sloane a letter on insects.
Johann Philipp Breyne (1680-1764) was a German botanist, zoologist, and entomologist known primarily for his work on the Polish cochineal, or Porphyrophora polonica, used in red dye production. He became a fellow of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1715 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Philipp_Breyne).
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Johann Philipp Breyne to Hans Sloane – June 13, 1716
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Date: June 13, 1716
Author: Johann Philipp Breyne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 171
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Breyne congratulates Sloane on his Baronetcy. He is concerned the chest he sent with Woodward did not arrive.
Johann Philipp Breyne (1680-1764) was a German botanist, zoologist, and entomologist known primarily for his work on the Polish cochineal, or Porphyrophora polonica, used in red dye production. He became a fellow of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1715 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Philipp_Breyne).
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Caspar Neumann to Hans Sloane – October 15, 1729
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Date: October 15, 1729
Author: Caspar Neumann
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: ff. 214-215
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Transcription
Caspar Neumann (1683-1737) was a German-Polish chemist and apothecary. From 1704 to 1711 he was traveling apothecary to Frederick I of Prussia. Neumann traveled to England in 1713 and worked for the Dutch surgeon Abraham Cyprianus for three years. It was at this time he became acquainted with Isaac Newton and Hans Sloane. He then traveled with George I’s entourage throughout Germany in 1716. From 1719 he was the Royal Court Apothecary and in 1723 he conveyed the secret formula for Prussian blue, the first synthetic dye, to the Royal Society (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Neumann_(chemist)).
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Johann Philipp Breyne to Hans Sloane – October 19, 1712
Item info
Date: October 19, 1712
Author: Johann Philipp Breyne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 98-99
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Language
Latin
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Patronage, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, Scholarship, Scientific
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Subjects
Books, Botany, Catalogues, Danzig, Experiments, Finland, Jamaica, Natural History, Plague, Plants, Recommendations, Specimens, Stones
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Date (as written)
October 19, 1712
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Danzig
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Others mentioned
Remur George Paip James Petiver
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Patients mentioned
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Breyne thanks Sloane for the gift of his Jamaican treatise and sending the 1710 issue of the Philosophical Transactions. He sends some botanical specimens through Petiver and will forward a catalogue of plants near Turku, Finland as soon as possible. Breyne includes an account of the 1709 plague in Danzig, published as Phil. Trans. 1712, 28:101-144. He encloses letters from a relation of his, George Paip, about experiments with stones from Hungary. The Royal Society may request more information if it is interested. Breyne asks Sloane to receive his friend, Remur, and offers to meet anyone Sloane recommends in return.
Johann Philipp Breyne (1680-1764) was a German botanist, zoologist, and entomologist known primarily for his work on the Polish cochineal, or Porphyrophora polonica, used in red dye production. He became a fellow of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1715 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Philipp_Breyne).
