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Samuel Dale to Hans Sloane – June 2, 1707
Item info
Date: June 2, 1707
Author: Samuel Dale
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 365-366
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Royal Society, Scholarship, Social
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Subjects
Books, Deaths, Entomology, Insects, Jamaica, Monuments, Natural History, Publishing
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Date (as written)
June 2, 1707
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Braintree
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Others mentioned
John Ray Mr Thorp
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Patients mentioned
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Dale has not heard anything about Ray’s monument. He asks for a copy of Sloane’s ‘History of Jamaica’. He is under the impression that the Royal Society is in favour of publishing Ray’s ‘History of Insects’ without additions.
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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James Sherard to Hans Sloane – October 2, 1706
Item info
Date: October 2, 1706
Author: James Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: f. 228
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[fol. 228]
Sr.
I recd the enclosed yesterday from my Brother Consil Sherard I am
Sr yr
most humble servant
James Sherard
London
Oct 2d. 1708
James Sherard (1666-1738) apprenticed as an apothecary to Charles Watts. He practiced as an apothecary in Mark Lane, London and retired in 1720. Sherard was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1706. In his retirement he pursued the collection of rare plants and became a well known botanist, though not as well known as his brother William Sherard (FRS 1720). James Sherard spent the 1720s travelling and collecting specimens by 1730 was managing the Chelsea Gardens. (W. W. Webb, ‘Sherard, James (1666–1738)’, rev. Scott Mandelbrote, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25354, accessed 16 June 2015]).
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Arthur Charlett to Hans Sloane – November 1, 1707
Item info
Date: November 1, 1707
Author: Arthur Charlett
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 52-53
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[fol. 53] Univ. Coll 1 Nov. 1707.
Worthy Sr
After so long an Absence your letter brought back Again our Philosophical Pilgrim, much more chearfull, and much Improved and exacted in the Principles & Rules of his Contemplative Philosophy, a Very Ingenious Model + [?] young Lord being with me in my study, when He came [?] in, fell the Perversity of his maxims, of wch I leave Himself to be the Magnificent Relator. I had once thoughts of drinking a Dish of Chocolate with you having drank none since I saw you) The next Week, but I think now to deferre it to much the same [?] after Christmas. I shall have a small present of a Book speedily to beg your Acceptance from
Deare Sr
Yr Obedient humble Servant Ar Charlett
Service to yr good Lady and all her [?]
Charlett was elected Master of University College at Oxford in 1692 and held that post until his death in 1722. Charlett used the mastership to gain influence, especially through persistent letter-writing to numerous correspondents, sharing the latest literary, political, and scholarly gossip (R. H. Darwall-Smith, Charlett, Arthur (16551722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5158, accessed 1 June 2011]).
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James Yonge to Hans Sloane – March 9, 1708
Item info
Date: March 9, 1708
Author: James Yonge
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 116-117
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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]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Nathaniel Mitchell
Gender:
Age:
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Description
A woman passed a bunch of hair with her urine. She has since been unplagued by pain or tumours on the side of her belly. Yonge's theory is that the hair passed directly through her urethra since the chamber pot was confirmed to have been clean.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: The patient has been well for eight months.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Kidney, Pain, Urinary, Ulcer, Colics, Kidney, Urinary, Tumour, Pain, Stomach
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James Yonge to Hans Sloane – March 9, 1708
Item info
Date: March 9, 1708
Author: James Yonge
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 116-117
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Transcription
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]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Unnamed
Gender:
Age:
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Description
A woman passed a bunch of hair with her urine. She has since been unplagued by pain or tumours on the side of her belly. Yonge's theory is that the hair passed directly through her urethra since the chamber pot was confirmed to have been clean.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: The patient has been well for eight months.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Kidney, Pain, Urinary, Ulcer, Colics, Kidney, Urinary, Tumour, Pain, Stomach
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James Yonge to Hans Sloane – March 9, 1708
Item info
Date: March 9, 1708
Author: James Yonge
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 116-117
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Transcription
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]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Unnamed
Gender:
Age:Fifty years old.
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Description
Mitchell has suffered from pain due to urinary problems for two years.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Treatments have included 'glysters', nettle-root powder in white wine, mallow roots and 'corsinths' mixed with butter, and 'glysters' tinted with indigo.
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: Mitchell has died. Yonge regrets that the patient's wife buried the body instead of allowing him to dissect it.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Kidney, Pain, Urinary, Ulcer, Colics, Kidney, Urinary, Tumour, Pain, Stomach
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James Yonge to Hans Sloane – March 9, 1708
Item info
Date: March 9, 1708
Author: James Yonge
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 116-117
Original Page
Transcription
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]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Nathaniel Mitchell
Gender:
Age:Fifty years old.
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Description
Mitchell has suffered from pain due to urinary problems for two years.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Treatments have included 'glysters', nettle-root powder in white wine, mallow roots and 'corsinths' mixed with butter, and 'glysters' tinted with indigo.
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: Mitchell has died. Yonge regrets that the patient's wife buried the body instead of allowing him to dissect it.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Kidney, Pain, Urinary, Ulcer, Colics, Kidney, Urinary, Tumour, Pain, Stomach
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William Derham to Hans Sloane – February 2, 1707/08
Item info
Date: February 2, 1707/08
Author: William Derham
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 99-100
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[fol. 99]
Sr Febr 2 1707/8
I have sent you my Observations about Sounds; which as
it hath cost me some pains, so I hope will be acceptable to
you, & the most illustrious Society. If you think it worth
publishing in the Transactions, I desire you will be pleased
to put it into one of the next, that I may have it as soon
as may be, to send to his Excellency the Envoy at Florence,
my answer to his last kind Packet, wch I also have sent you
inclosed, viz a Lr to me from his Excellencey, & two Papers in
Italian. I desire the favour of you to keep these three
Papers for me, & to return them me again again when I see
you next, because I intend to insert what is materi-
al in them in my Observations of the Weather &c of 1707.
If you have the Italian Papers translated I will desire
The favour of the use of them with my own: the Italian
Language being out of my way. I am now from home
at a friends House, & therefore have not time to say more
only that I am with greatest respect
Sr Your much obliged humble servant
W Derham
Derham was a Church of England clergyman and a natural philosopher, interested in nature, mathematics, and philosophy. He frequently requested medical advice from Sloane, and likely served as a physician to his family and parishioners (Marja Smolenaars, “Derham, William (1657-1735)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7528, accessed 7 June 2011]).
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John Woodward to Hans Sloane – January 16, 1707/08
Item info
Date: January 16, 1707/08
Author: John Woodward
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: f. 92
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Woodward thanks Sloane for sending the accounts of newly published books. He will soon be in London and asks Sloane to inform Mr Hodges that he will wait on him next week.
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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Stephen Gray to Hans Sloane – January 3, 1707/08
Item info
Date: January 3, 1707/08
Author: Stephen Gray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 83-84
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Gray praises the Philosophical Transactions, especially the inventions, experiments, and discoveries involving the production of light and glass tubes. He relays detailed accounts of twelve of his own experiments involving luminosity and glass tubes and mentions his invention of a glass to be used for cupping.
Gray was an experimental philosopher who established a rapport with the Royal Society and Royal Greenwich Observatory, published articles in the Transactions, and experimented with electricity (Michael Ben-Chaim, Gray, Stephen (bap. 1666, d. 1736), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11354, accessed 26 June 2013]).