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John Conyers, 3rd Baronet to Hans Sloane – August 17, 1701
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Date: August 17, 1701
Author: John Conyers, 3rd Baronet
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: ff. 27-28
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Sir John Conyers, 3rd Baronet (1649-1719) was the son of Sir Christopher Conyers, 2nd Baronet and Elizabeth Langhorne. His son was named Sir Baldwin Conyers, 4th Baronet (1681-1731) (http://www.thepeerage.com/p63863.htm#i638627).
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Name: Mrs. Conyers
Gender:
Age:Childbearing age.
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Description
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Diagnosis
Conyers notes that her leg began to swell after a difficult childbirth which occurred nine days ago but it has no heat or inflammation though it so painful it cannot bear her weight. The child died a few hours after birth. She also had pain in the head and teeth.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: She was taking various powders and purges for a previous illness. Mrs. Conyers took a previously prescribed purge made by a local apothecary.
Ongoing Treatment: Purges as a preventative measure.
Response:
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Childbirth, Childhood Diseases, Head, Headache, Inflammations, Pain, Teeth, Leg
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John Conyers, 3rd Baronet to Hans Sloane – n.d. [pre-1716]
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Date: n.d. [pre-1716]
Author: John Conyers, 3rd Baronet
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 23
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Sir John Conyers, 3rd Baronet (1649-1719) was the son of Sir Christopher Conyers, 2nd Baronet and Elizabeth Langhorne. His son was named Sir Baldwin Conyers, 4th Baronet (1681-1731) (http://www.thepeerage.com/p63863.htm#i638627).
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Name: Mrs. Conyers
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Age:
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Description
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Diagnosis
She had fever that came and went like "vapours."
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Purging; "Serenity powder"
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: After purging she became "lightsome" but the Jesuit's powder made her stomach worse. Alternated between being too hot and too cold. Her hands and tongue were moist. Later in the day she suffered from futher stomach pain and grippe in her back. That evening she had a shivering fit and she felt short of breath. Her wheezing abated and she wanted the curtains to be left open for air. She remained in bed.
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Back, Fevers, Lungs, Stomach, Vapours
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Catherine Conduit (nee Barton) to Hans Sloane – c. 1740-1749
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Date: c. 1740-1749
Author: Catherine Conduit (nee Barton)
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 19
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Catherine Conduit’s name is spelled ‘Catherine Conduitt’ in this letter.
Catherine Conduit, nee Barton (b. 1679, d. after 1719), was the daughter of Reverend Robert Barton and Hannah Smith. In 1717 she married John Conduit and in 1719 they had a daughter, Catherine Conduit (d. 1750) (http://www.thepeerage.com/p14256.htm#i142556).
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John Conduitt to Hans Sloane – n.d.
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Date: n.d.
Author: John Conduitt
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 17
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John Conduitt (1688-1737) attended Trinity College, Cambridge and served as judge-advocate to the British forces in Portugal. He later become captain in a regiment of dragoons serving in Portugal (Philip Carter, Conduitt, John (16881737), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6061, accessed 29 June 2011]).
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Name: N/A Catherine Conduit (nee Barton)
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Description
Slept well after bleeding. Tender and weak constitution.
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Diagnosis
Husband feared that there was insufficient intermission in her fever for her to take the bark. Wife also feared her fever was too violent.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Powders; blisters; "Gascoigne's powder". She refused to take the powders.
Ongoing Treatment: She was being bled.
Response: After bleeding she sweat lightly. She was sleeping soundly; able to eat rice and mutton broth and a "white drink"; eased gripes and loose bowels; had several small stools and fever eased, though returned to full strength in the afternoon. Her stitches continued, but improved.
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Fevers, Insomnia, Stomach
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Francis Bernard (1607-1697), medical doctor. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.
Francis Bernard (bap. 1628, d. 1698) was an apothecary and physician. He worked at St Bartholomew’s Hospital from 1661 and was noted for his labours during the great plague of 1665. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1680. Bernard had a large library with books in Greek, Latin, French, and Italian.
Reference
Juanita Burnby, ‘Bernard, Francis (bap. 1628, d. 1698)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2241, accessed 23 July 2014]).
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Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine to Leonard Plukenet – February 29, 1687/88
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Date: February 29, 1687/88
Author: Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine
Recipient: Leonard Plukenet
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 9
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Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine, was MP for Old Sarum and although his privy chamber office ended with the death of Charles II, he held local offices in Middlesex through the 1680s and 90s. In 1705, he published ‘The History and antiquities of the town and church of Tottenham’ (Nicholas Doggett, Hare, Henry, second Baron Coleraine (bap. 1636, d. 1708), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12299, accessed 8 July 2013]).
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Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane – December 8, 1720
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Date: December 8, 1720
Author: Thomas Hearne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: ff. 222-223
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Thomas Hearne (bap. 1678, d. 1735) was an antiquary and diarist. He began working at the Bodleian Library in 1701. A nonjuror, his refusal to take an oath of allegiance to King George I led to his dismissal from the Bodleian in 1716. Hearne published the works of several English chroniclers (Theodor Harmsen, Hearne, Thomas (bap. 1678, d. 1735), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12827, accessed 2 June 2011]).
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Name: N/A Thomas Herne
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Description
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Sloane gave him a prescription of opiate and an electuary for a cough and spitting blood. He also sought the aid of a neighboring physician whom he had known at Oxford who advised him against taking opiate and who bled him repeatedly. He took a glyster.
Ongoing Treatment: Sloane's prescription notes: Fontanole. superscapal. venesect. bodel vulner. cum caelo. vaccio. diacod.
Response: In the warm weather he was well but he had a relapse in October. He was free from the spitting for a while but had rheum on the lungs and terrible coughing, which made him weak because it kept him awake at night. He continued to be bled every morning and this "reduced me to the last extremity." He was too weak to go to London to meet with Sloane in person at this time.
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Coughs, Lungs, Blood, Consumptions
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Robert Uvedale to Hans Sloane – March 25, 1691
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Date: March 25, 1691
Author: Robert Uvedale
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 102
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Uvedale informs Sloane there was a meeting of the Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, to discuss who owns the parsonage at Enfield. This was an issue ‘becaus for default of payment of arrears they [the College] must be obliged to enter upon the Estate’. The issue has not been resolved since the death of the Duke of Albemarle, who was the apparent proprietor. Uvedale asks Sloane to look into the matter, as he was close to the Duke before the latter’s death.
Robert Uvedale (1642-1722) was a botanist and schoolteacher. Though he was involved in the Royal Society he never became a member. Uvedale collected specimens for his personal herbarium, which was eventually acquired by Sir Hans Sloane (G. S. Boulger, Uvedale, Robert (16421722), rev. Anita McConnell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28042, accessed 9 June 2011]).
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Peter Barwick to Hans Sloane – July 10, 1690
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Date: July 10, 1690
Author: Peter Barwick
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 88
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Peter Barwick (1619-1705) was a physician. He served Charles II in 1651 and was censor of the College of Physicians in 1674, 1684, and 1687. Sir Hans Sloane was one of the executors of Barwick’s will (Peter Elmer, ‘Barwick, Peter (1619–1705)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1614, accessed 9 July 2014]).
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Peter Barwick to Elizabeth Monck (nee Cavendish), Duchess of Abemarle – September 20, 1690
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Date: September 20, 1690
Author: Peter Barwick
Recipient: Elizabeth Monck (nee Cavendish), Duchess of Abemarle
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 97-98
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The Lord of Bath is proposing a bill related to the contested executorship. Barwick informs the Duchess he asked for Sloane’s counsel and assistance. He will be in London soon to deal with the case.
Peter Barwick (1619-1705) was a physician. He served Charles II in 1651 and was censor of the College of Physicians in 1674, 1684, and 1687. Sir Hans Sloane was one of the executors of Barwick’s will (Peter Elmer, ‘Barwick, Peter (1619–1705)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1614, accessed 9 July 2014]).