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Letter 0557

Samuel Dale to Hans Sloane – February 8, 1699


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Date: February 8, 1699
Author: Samuel Dale
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 205-206



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Dale writes that he has not returned Sloane’s book because he feared the bad weather would spoil it. He has sent Sloane some small samples as a gift and comments that he hopes Sloane has set aside some Materia Medica for him. He asks some botanical questions and if Sloane has anything ready. If he does, Mr Smith will convey it to Dale. He hopes Sloane will deliver the enclosed to Tancred Robinson. Samuel Dale was an apothecary, botanist, and physician who contributed several articles to the Philosophical Transactions. He was John Ray’s executor and good friend, and from Dale’s letters to Sloane we learn many details of Ray’s final moments (G. S. Boulger, Dale, Samuel (bap. 1659, d. 1739), rev. Juanita Burnby, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7016, accessed 5 July 2013]).




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Letter 2526

James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos to Hans Sloane – December 7, 1721


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Date: December 7, 1721
Author: James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: f. 156



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Brydges informs Sloane of an expedition to Africa. Mr Lynn, ‘Secretary to the African Company’, is the bearer. He is to answer Sloane’s questions and explain ‘the Nature of Drugs, plants, and spices’ they might find there. James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (1674-1744) was a politician, patron of the arts, and, like Sloane, on the Board of Governors of the Foundling Hospital. (Joan Johnson, Brydges, James, first duke of Chandos (16741744), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3806, accessed 30 Aug 2011]).




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Letter 3642

Rose Fuller to Hans Sloane – July 30, 1729


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Date: July 30, 1729
Author: Rose Fuller
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: ff. 160-161



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Fuller visited Amsterdam and the two men Sloane to whom had sent books. Seba was especially happy to receive Fuller. Seba has ‘a very fine collection of Serpents and Lizards and other reptiles and a pretty many other Animals’. He also has a great collection of bezoars, but no precious stones. There are three large pieces of amber ‘larger than my fist’ and a great number of other curious things. Fuller also visited Mr Ruysch and saw ‘his preparations’, which were not as good as those found in England. He suggests that Mr Ranby’s are better. Ruysch was working on comparative anatomy between animals and plants at the time. Fuller wanted to ask questions about the preparations, but Ruysch was ‘exceeding[ly] deaf and allmost blind’. The preparations were not like those of Mr St Andre, who painted them. Ruysch wanted Fuller to pass his thanks on to Sloane for everything he has sent. Fuller received word that Sloane is ‘out of order’, but by the same letter he was informed that Sloane is ‘on the mending hand, and allmost recover’d’. Fuller thanks Sloane for ensuring that his brother’s call for subscriptions was successful. Roser Fuller (1708-1777) was a politician, gun-founder and landowner. He was Sir Hans Sloane’s grandson. Fuller studied medicine at Cambridge from 1725 to 1728 and Leiden from 1729 to 1732 and went to Jamaica in 1733 to supervise the family estates. He served in the Jamaican assembly for some time before returning to England in 1755. Fuller was elected MP for Rye in 1768 (J. S. Hodgkinson, ‘Fuller family (per. c.1650–1803)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47494, accessed 14 Aug 2014]).




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Of a leveret brought up by a cat

Tales of cross-species ā€˜friendshipsā€™ always warm the cockles of our modern hearts. It is difficult not to be charmed by accounts of Koko the Gorillaā€™s attachment to kittens and her grief when one died, or tales of a tiger suckling piglets . Early modern people were also fascinated by these odd pairings. In 1654, for example, John Evelyn reported that he ā€œsaw a tame lion play familiarly with a lambā€ at a London fair. (Evelyn also stuck his hand in the lionā€™s mouth to touch its tongueā€”not sure Iā€™d have taken my chances, no matter how tame the lion!)

In 1743, Montague Bacon, the Rector of Newbold Verdun in Leicestershire, offered up another strange pairing for the interest of Sir Hans Sloane (BL Sloane MS 4066, f. 127). ā€œPray tell Sr. Hansā€, he wrote to Captain Tublay, ā€œthat my brother has got a Leveret, that has been suckled & bred up by a catā€. Not quite lion and lamb status, but stillā€¦

The cat & the Leveret are as fond of one another, as can be. The Cat takeā€™s it to be of her own kind, & sometimes bringā€™s live mice to it to teach it itā€™s own hare: and when she seeā€™s, that the Lever[e]t has no relish of the employment, she boxeā€™s her ears for not learning her busā€™ness, as she should do.

A hare. Coloured wood engraving. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.

A hare. Coloured wood engraving.
Credit: Wellcome Library, London.

Both animal odd couples were clearly curiosities, but viewers would have had very different interpretations. During the Interregnum (1649-1660), the lion and lamb pairing would have had religious and political resonance. Religiously, it evoked Isaiah 11:6 and the dual nature of Christ (lion as conquest and lamb as sacrifice): “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.”

"Peaceable Kingdom of the Branch" by Edward Hicks - http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=18738.Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

“Peaceable Kingdom of the Branch” by Edward Hicks – http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=18738.Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Politically, the lion and lamb pairing also showed up in Royalist works celebrating the return of the king, such as the popular ballad ā€œThe King Enjoys His Own Againā€:

When all these shall come to pass,
then farewell Musket, Pipe and Drum,
The Lamb shall with the Lyon feed,
which were a happy time indeed:
O let us all pray, we may see the day,
that Peace may govern in his Name:
For then I can tell all things will be well
When the King comes Home in Peace again

The leveret and cat pairing was a much cozier domestic matter. It took place within the home of Baconā€™s brother and the cat acted as mother to the leveret, even trying to teach the leveret to hunt. Bacon emphasised the catā€™s maternal instinct as overriding its predatorial instinct, so much so that he never even indicated why and how the cat came to be suckling the leveret. (But perhaps it was something like this account of another cat and leveret.) England of 1743 was at peace, but the ever-expanding British empire that brought them into contact with new people, lands and animals: could they be brought under British domestication, too? A homely little tale of predator and prey living together might have been very appealing.

Baconā€™s interpretation also has similiarities with our own modern tendencies in anthropomorphization; we look for examples of nurturing behaviours–our own best selves, as reflected in the animal world. But his interpretation differs from ours, as well. Where we might read the animal behaviour as emotion (as with the video showing Kokoā€™s grief), Bacon was more circumspect in making that comparison, describing the pair ā€œas fond of one another, as can beā€.

In any case, the real animal curiosity as far as Bacon was concerned, was not the cat and leveret relationship. In the letter, he gave as many lines to another point of interest:

I know not whether it be a curiosity to mention, that our neighbor Mr. Crawley has a breed of white, quite white Game hares. The young ones are speckled, when young, but grow quite white, as they grow up. Sr. Hans can tell whether these things are worth mentioning or not.

Now that line of enquiry is very different from our modern interests, but certainly fit with the eighteenth-century attempts to classify the world around them. When looking at accounts of animal friendships, then and now, context is indeed everything.

Letter 0778

Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane – April 26, 1703


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Date: April 26, 1703
Author: Richard Richardson
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 121-122



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[fol. 121] Worthy Sr I had long agoe made answer to your kind letter if any thing has offers is lefte with your notice but my fearibes of late after Nat: Hist: have been very inconcidorable however out of that small collection of fossils I am now master of, I have sent you a litle box, among the rest you wil meet with a stone not very unlikly representing the dried boughs of some tree in Bas relat, which I take to be nue, this cannot be referred to Mr Lhwyts Asterapodia not being articulated, an other stone comes along with it which I beleive may be thither referred, but much larger & different from any he has figured, these are ablended with some other Fossils [?] Lithophyts, some of which you wil meet with amongst the Designes; with this comes my request to you for your assistance & directions in the case of a worthy gentlewoman, who has committed her selfe to my care & whose health I heartily wish for she is about 4g years of age, pretty Corpulent & of a sanguine constitution who formerly (dark)imd a good state of health but since the suppression of her menstuouse courses (which was (dark) two years agoe) she has found her selfe sometimes out of order with a difficulty in breathing but that trouble was not soe sensible to her as of late being now full Bodyed though I thinke not soe much as some weeks agoe & complains as if she was yirt aout under her stomach, this is attended with a very great difficulty in breathing, which is very troublesome to her especially in walking, she can endure the motion of a coach prety wel, which does very like disorder her, her stomach is prety good seldome complaining of any thing after eating, but upon an empty sto: :mach finds & uneasynesse & hollownesse which is the best remedyd by eating a litle, she sometimes complains of a faintnesse & lownesse of her spirits. Her urine is equall in quantity to the liquids she takes & often disposes a thick redy sedment, she generally breaths more freely towards night, her complexion is very cleare & has noe weight nor uneasynesse in the lower part of her body, her legs swels no more then theu have sometimes done in her health, which is very litle. She has formerly been incident to a flux of cold & hume some times on one side & sometimes the other of her heade upon any disorder, which now sometimes troubles her but generally goes of it by applying warme cloths to it. She sleeps prety wel, but often awakes in a faint sweat [(inter-line) her pulse is for the most part prety strong & regulare] this is the good Ladys case, as neare as I can describe it to you, which to mee seems purly Histericall; your Fee you wil finde in the box of Fossils, which John Houedesworth wil bring to your hands [?] a Broade not thinking it safe to inclose it in this letter [fol. 122] I desire you would favoure me with your thoughts upon this case & your directions by the first pat, if you can conveniently & if any alterations happen, you shall have a farther account as assure of the effects of your directions purging medicins had been prescribed her before I was consulted, Calibiate Tinctures Histerick medicins in several forms bitter wines & during drinkes with V cale: uu by the use of steel medicins the always grew worse which put her into a very uneal heats & quite hote away her stomach & though she continued the use of them for a conciderable time they would not all agree with her. I orderd her Antideerlutick & Diu: :relick medium in severall formes which have agreed with her very wel & though I doe perceive she is much better then of late yel I heartily with a more speedy methode might be found out for her recovery prey let me alsoe have your opinion about the use of the Bath water or german spaw water in this case, your speedy answer to this case wil very much oblige Your obed: servant Ric: Richardson North Bierley Ap: 26 703

Richardson sends a small box of fossils that he has worked with. He includes a description of them.

Richardson was a physician and botanist who traveled widely in England, Wales, and Scotland in search of rare specimens. He corresponded and exchanged plants with many well-known botanists and naturalists (W. P. Courtney, Richardson, Richard (16631741), rev. Peter Davis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23576, accessed 31 May 2011]).




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  • Patient info
    Name: N/A Unnamed (Woman)
    Gender:
    Age:49 years old.
  • Description

    'Pretty corpulent'; sanguine constitution. Formerly prone to fluxes of colds; legs previously swelled often, but no longer.

  • Diagnosis

    Trouble breathing, especially when walking (but she can ride in a coach). On an empty stomach, suffers uneasiness, hollowness, faintness, and low spirits. Her urine 'is equal in quantity to the liquids of the lakes', with red sediment. Awakes in faint sweats. Richardson's diagnosis: 'The good ladys case, as neare as I can describe it to you... to mee seems purely hystericall'.

  • Treatment
    Previous Treatment:

    Has been given 'hysterick medicines', bitter wines, and drying drinks.


    Ongoing Treatment:
    Response:

    The medicines, wines, and drinks have always made her worse and put her into a great heat. See also: Sloane MS 4039 f. 125.

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    Urinary, Emotions, Hysteria, Lungs, Menopause

Letter 3013

Humfrey Wanley to Hans Sloane – March 10, 1724


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Date: March 10, 1724
Author: Humfrey Wanley
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 145-146



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[fol. 145] Honorable Sir 10 March 1723/4 By my new Lords Order this morning I went to Mr Brown’s the Bookseller to bespeak such Books as his Lordship had marked in his Catalogue in Order to buy; but was soon inform’d that You had marked several of the same Books. Hereupon, I said, I knew my Lord to be so honorable in his Nature, as willingly to yield up unto you his pretensions to many Books; because you had done so to him, when he came first to a former parcel, as you, Sir, do now to this. Sir, in the nature of my Lords Printed Library, Biblical & Liturgical Books make up one main Article; and Grammar & Lexicons, another. I know (notwithstanding my Lords Absence) that he will & does readily yield up divers things to you, which he intended to have had: so that now you interfere only as to these following, pag. 22 no. l. s. d. 223. Biblia Rumanscha–price 2. 10. 0 x 224. Biblia Finlandica——- 1. 15. x 237. Russian Prayer book——. 15.- x 238. Slavonian Psalter.——–. 10. 6 154. Bohemian Bible———1. 10. – 164. Lithuanian Testament——10. 6 x [page] 23. 176. Slavonian Prayers——— 12. – 560. Danish Bible————- 6. – 561. Polish Bible————– 7. 6 563. Bohemian Bible———– 5. – 578. Hungarian Testament—— 2. 6. 579. Bohemian Testament——-4. 0 [page] 24. 600. Slavonian Liturgy———- 3. 6 x 605. Muscovite prayers——— 3. – 609. Quebec-Rituel———— 5. – x [page] 50 1307. Dictionar Lat. suecicum.— 1. 6 1326. Gram. Slavonica———- 2. 6 1331. Gram. Suecana.———- 2. 6 1338. Polish & Dutch Grammar— 2. 6 [page] 51 1340. Principia Ling. Bohem——-. 6 These are all; for I know my Lord yields up the others, as I have already said. And, as to these, I verily believe that He will willingly compound with you, as to the books in the List above specified, If you will please to lett him have these six marked X, although you shall take all the others. He has a true veneration for your Person & truly Honorable Character, and will always shew it by convincing Proofs: and I hope you will second your former instance of good will to him (who collects these things ex professo) by allowing him to be the Purchaser, which will yet much more oblige him. I am always Honorable Sir, Your most obliged & most humble servant Humfrey Wanley.

Humfrey Wanley was an Old English scholar and librarian at Oxford. He was appointed assistant at the Bodleian Library in 1695 (Peter Heyworth, Wanley, Humfrey (16721726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28664, accessed 4 July 2013]).




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Letter 4185

Peter Carey to Hans Sloane – July the 5th 1734


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Date: July the 5th 1734
Author: Peter Carey
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053
Folio: f. 239



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I take the liberty to apply to your Honour though an entire Stranger to you, but the just Character you have of being one of the greatest vertuoso’s of this age and at the same time one of the most learnes in your proffetion gives me assurance that you will excuse my freedom upon a subject that ay be worth the attention of the Curious and which may prove a public benefit. About 18 years ago a Frenchman from St. Malo who was lately arrived from the South Sea came into this Island to traffic, be brought with him three small branches of a tree which he said was the Tree that bore the Balsam of Peru, he made a present of it to three different persons in this Island but only one branch took root and thrived, tho the twigg looked quit dryed up and not bigger than the end of a men’s little finger for the first ten years the Tree lay neglected and did not grow much but in some few years after it grew up to be pretty large and tall so as at present it is bigg enough to bear three or four Bushels of fruit Supposing it was a Pear or Apple tree & the body of the tree is about nine Inches diameter near the Root, I am apt to believe that the tree is capable of growing much larger if care had been taken to have desporled her of the(crossed out) some superfluous branches when it was growing up. This tree resembles the pear tree both in the wood and leaves; notwithstanding it is so much like a fruit tree it bears neither flower nor fruit, but produces a Bud in every eye of the branches longer than a horse bean and about half as bigg which bud is full of Balsam. It is not above three or four years that any attention was made to this tree, but some persons having gathered some of the buds to rubb upon some green wounds found it healed marvelously. last Spring, my gardener having cut himself a cross the arm below the elbow with a bill as he was lopping an apple tree he took four or five of these budds which he beat into a past applyed it to his arm and bound it up. in four Days time when he unbound it he found himself perfectly cured although the cut was three or four Inches long and very deep. great many people have found the same benefit. Though this Tree have certainly great virtues, yet I cannot affirm it to be the Peru-tree otherwise than it was given for such and that the balsam that is extracted out of these buds have the colour and Smell of the balsam of Peru as the Surgeons and Apothecaries we have here affirm. for we have no regular Physicians in this Island, but if it found to be Peru Tree I conceive that it must prove in time very advantagious in respect that it may easily be propagated for I find by experience that it comes naturally in our Soil even beyond a Pear of Apple tree for by putting into the ground any branch of it though no bigger than a quil it will come in the Same manner and almost as well as a Water-Willow. It is but two years since that I made some small attention to it, and I have raised about a Dozen of those Trees by putting these small twiggs into the ground, some that I planted the year before this last that have this year pushed branches of 16 Inches long and with due care it may become a reasonable big tree of the same substance it is certain this tree have more Sap, I suppose next Spring to try to graft it upon an Apple tree and I doe not doubt but it answer. I have been something prolix in the easy and so natural a manner in which this tree comes in this Island because I have been told that there are but too places in Europe were any of these Trees are to be found (VIZ) in the Phisick Garden att Oxford and in a Noblemen’s Garden in Holland and that there is Something out Soyle peculiar to natural to those Afratick & American Plants we have an Instance of it in our Lillys which is a flower originally brought from the East Indies which grows here in vast quantities without any care taken and propagate unacountably, which all the Art of Men have not yet been able to bring about & in England or France so the same salts or Juices in our Soyle that agree so well with out Lilly’s may have the same effect upon this balsam Tree. After I have thus given you a full account of the nature of this Tree I shall next desire you to favour me with your observations upon it and wither you think this to be the Peru Tree and for your further intelligence. I do here enclose a small twig as also you know of a great many in Europe and if those are in thriving condition so as to be propagated there and brought to a beneficial use, but a very material thing is to know how to extract the balsam. I am told it is by making an incision in the trunck of the tree, but I can hardly conceive it. for the tree doe not seem to have any balsamick Substance in the branches of it as firr tree & which makes me think that all the balsam lyes in the bud and I am the more convinced it is so in that when the bud in taken off that place dryes up * and gives afterwords not the least moisture. I think likewise that if the balsam was extracted at the root of trunck of the tree such a quantity would be had as would make it more common and that the small quantities that can be had from the bud is the reason that it comes not in large quantities as consequently is a dear comodity. but this is some wild notion of mine who have not acquired Learning nor Experience in any affairs of this nature. *I doe not mean that the branches withers or drys up but only that nothing of a (?) appears where the (?) is plucked off. I should be proud to be favoured with an answer as soon as your comodity can afford because the Original Tree being in its bloom an experiment may now be made either by incision or by plucking off the budds if needid but I know in what manner it must be done the owner of the Tree not being willing to go upon any rash experiment for fear of endangering his Tree, I beg leave to Subscribe my self. Sir Your most Humble & most Obedient Servant Carey Please to direct to Peter Carey In Guernsey to be left to Mr. Richard Haunton, Merchant In Southton If it is agreable to you I propose raise one tree for you next spring and send it in the Summer when I find it vigorous and in a thriving condition.




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The Preserved Puppy Proposal

Edmund Curll, a booksellerā€™s apprentice, wrote to Sloane in 1703 with news of ā€œA Wonderfull production in Natureā€: an unusual puppy.

Recently, a Scottish gentlemanā€™s dog had

Whelpā€™d two Puppies one of them was whelpā€™d dead and the other that was whelpā€™d alive being a Male in 24 hours after voided from the fundament another Little Creature wch Livā€™d 10 Hours and is now preservā€™d in Spirits of Wine.

This, Curll promised Sloane, could ā€œbe produced Sr if you please to give yourself the troubleā€.

Experiment on a dog. From Joannes Walaeus, Epistola duae, 1651. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.

Experiment on a dog. From Joannes Walaeus, Epistola duae, 1651. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.

By 1703, Sloane was already known for his collection of curiosities, but it was in Sloaneā€™s capacity was secretary of the Royal Society that Curll approached him (as the letter’s address specified). Presumably Curll thought that Sloane, in particular, would be unable to resist a strange ā€œLittle Creatureā€ born from its motherā€™s anus.

Dogs, of course, were often used in experimentation, so an unusual specimen may well have been of interest to the Royal Societyā€”though I would have been more curious to examine the mother to determine whether the anal birth had resulted from a congenital problem or an injury caused by the whelping.*

In writing to Sloane, perhaps Curll was hoping to strike up a common interest with a potential patron who was known for buying books as well as odditiesā€”or, maybe, he was just hoping to turn a quick profit on a dead puppy.

Capitalizing on (bad) luck and death was certainly one of Curllā€™s overall career-building tactics. In 1708, he took over his masterā€™s bookselling after Roger Smith went bankrupt. And his career went from high to high (or low to low), as Curll became infamous as a seller of dodgy remedies to treat venereal problems and a purveyor of cheap dirty books and scandals. He was also known for publishing scurrilous and unverified biographies of recently deceased people, leading physician John Arbuthnot to (allegedly) comment that Curll was ā€œone of the new terrors of deathā€.

Was it a coincidence that Curll can be spotted trying to sell Sloane a preserved puppy so early in his bookselling life? Or was the puppy a harbinger of Curll’s future approach to his career?

* My internet search history is now filled with some pretty iffy search terms and Iā€™m no wiser, although I suspect an injury. I also discovered that there are a lot of preserved puppies available for sale on ebay and etsy, but no relevant historical pictures of such specimens.

Letter 2661

Paul Orchard to Hans Sloane – n.d.


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Date: n.d.
Author: Paul Orchard
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 183



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Fol. 183 Being many years subjected to those disorders in my head and have had the less hope of ever being entirely free from them, which I fear grow on me, even to the injury of my memory; you may remember I always complained of an heat or itching, on top of my head (commonly called the [?]) I’m pretty free from that heat att my breast, which I ascribe to an abstinence from all hot wines and the use of a cooling diet. I am newly alarmed at this pain or itching on top of my head, not only on account of loss of memory but even a diminution of sight, my eyes seems heavy and stiff and are weak after reading or writing…




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  • Patient info
    Name: N/A Paul Orchard
    Gender:
    Age:
  • Description

    The patient described a heat or itching sensation located at the top of his head which he believed was affecting both his memory and his sight, as he complained of suffering eye trouble after reading and writing. The patient noted that he had suffered from similar disorders in the past and that this was an ongoing condition.

  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
    Previous Treatment:

    Forsaking 'hot wines' and following 'a cooling diet'.


    Ongoing Treatment:
    Response:
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  • Medical problem reference
    Eyes, Head

Letter 4520

Phillip Cotton to Plukenett – Augst. 14.


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Date: Augst. 14.
Author: Phillip Cotton
Recipient: Plukenett

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: f. 301



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Sr Your last to me, found me in the field a trying some prob= =lemes of Jaquetts practicall Geometrie wch I quickly became master ofe; after the reading of yours for nothing surely more enlivens the spirritts, or raiseth a greater promtitude & industry then prayses from you, who all men praise. tho I must interpret those you have bin pleased with soe much elo= quencie to bestow in your letter to be [n?]either a specimen of what you could say; had you a better subject; then yt any there in, is in anywise to be attributed to my selfe. I have now made often experiment of Mr Marks’s Instruments; and as far as I can heither to find the gradations there on are pretty exact but the Theodolite I think is not altoga= =ther according to directions, for the box there of (as far as I can find) is not with a screw to take downe the nedle att pleasure and besides is so badly cemented to ye plate that betweene that, and itt, is left open severall wide chinks wch makes itt almost unserviceable in windy weather; because the nedle desturb’d with ye wind, wch comes through them: will not settle wch is a very trouble- =some fault. I think I could help itt with soft wax but that is not soe well, as if itt was againe under the [sau?] ther ere hands. and uppon ye brasse Index of the plane table there wants lines of numbers, sines, and Tangents, wch are of great use for the speedy solution of triangles without tables of sines [&c.?] or pen and Inke if marks could still putt them on, or would exchange this Index for another so improved; I would willingly be att the charge tho unwilling to putt you to any trouble herein, but if when your occasions leads you yt way you can without any; examine Marks herein you will more and more oblidge me, and tho I mae confesse that I have received more favours allready from you then I feare I have [ablilitie?] to [wharne?] yett whatso= ever lyes in my poore power shall never be wanting to show you how much I really am sr your most truly faithfull Servant Phillip Cotton. Hatley St George Augst. 14.

Phillip Cotton writes to Dr. Plukenett to inform him that he was recently “in the field a trying some prob= =lemes of Jaquetts practicall Geometrie wch [he] quickly became master ofe[.]” Cotton goes on to discuss a Theodolite, which he had difficulty using.




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