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John Morton to Hans Sloane – August 29, 1706
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Date: August 29, 1706
Author: John Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 210-211
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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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Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane – May 22, 1706
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Date: May 22, 1706
Author: Richard Richardson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 167-168
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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]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: Sir John Kaye
Gender:
Age:67 years old.
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Description
Kaye has always suffered from asthma to some degree.
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Diagnosis
Asthma, especially during the winter; legs swollen; appetite failing; cough; scrotum swollen and hard; trouble making water.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Pectorals to manage his asthma.
Ongoing Treatment: Pectorals, stomachicks, calibiats, emeticks, catharticks, and diureticks are being applied. Rollers are being employed on his legs.
Response: None of the treatments have 'answered expectations.'
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Medical problem reference
Coughs, Urinary, Failing appetite, Asthma, Swelling
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John Morton to Hans Sloane – August 29, 1706
Item info
Date: August 29, 1706
Author: John Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 210-211
Original Page
Transcription
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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John Morton to Hans Sloane – August 24, 1706
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Date: August 24, 1706
Author: John Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: f. 208
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Morton asks when the next Philosophical Transactions are to be printed. He would like to know so he can alert his subscribers and make some corrections.
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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Samuel Dale to Hans Sloane – August 14, 1706
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Date: August 14, 1706
Author: Samuel Dale
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 205-206
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Dale writes on behalf of Mrs Ray. He requests that Sloane ask Mr Bateman how much he would pay for Ray’s books. Dale also asks if Sloane knows anyone else who might be interested in them. Bateman wants to pay £80, while Mrs Ray wants £100.
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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John Morton to Hans Sloane – August 13, 1706
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Date: August 13, 1706
Author: John Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 203-204
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Material Culture, Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Archaeology, Deaths, Papers, Publishing, Shells, Specimens, Subscriptions, Urns
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Date (as written)
August 13, 1706
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Oxendon
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Others mentioned
Robert Hooke
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Patients mentioned
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Morton thanks Sloane for the English agate and Philosophical Transactions. He discusses working on the late Dr Hooke’s papers. He asks when the next Transactions are to be printed, for he believes such knowledge will make his subscribers more eager for his book. Morton dug up some urns ‘wherein sea-shells are log’d.’
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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John Morton to Hans Sloane – August 7, 1706
Item info
Date: August 7, 1706
Author: John Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 201-202
Original Page
Transcription
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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Patient info
Name: N/A Unnamed
Gender:
Age:Girl.
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Description
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Diagnosis
'Ordinary greensickness case'.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment: Girl was vomited; will be done again at 5:00 that day.
Response: The 'foolish girl' ate apples and milk all day, as well as right after she was vomited, which caused her head, limbs, and body to swell up 'so extremely, that in all appearance she was just ready to burst'. She was then prescribed three blisters, which caused six stools and abated the swelling.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Cephalic case, Head, Greensickness
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John Morton to Hans Sloane – August 7, 1706
Item info
Date: August 7, 1706
Author: John Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 201-202
Original Page
Transcription
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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John Morton to Hans Sloane – August 7, 1706
Item info
Date: August 7, 1706
Author: John Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 201-202
Original Page
Transcription
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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John Morton to Hans Sloane – August 7, 1706
Item info
Date: August 7, 1706
Author: John Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 201-202
Original Page
Transcription
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]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Unnamed
Gender:
Age:Girl.
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Description
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Diagnosis
'Ordinary greensickness case'.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment: Girl was vomited; will be done again at 5:00 that day.
Response: The 'foolish girl' ate apples and milk all day, as well as right after she was vomited, which caused her head, limbs, and body to swell up 'so extremely, that in all appearance she was just ready to burst'. She was then prescribed three blisters, which caused six stools and abated the swelling.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Cephalic case, Head, Greensickness