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John Ray to Hans Sloane – November 16, 1698
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Date: November 16, 1698
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 155-156
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Ray thanks Sloane for sending him a package of books, as well as ‘a pot of Dioscordium’. Ray writes that Dr Hermann’s ‘Paradisus Botarus’ has taught him a great many things that will be useful in his Supplement. Father Camelli – a Jesuit priest whose full name is Georg Joseph Kamel – has sent plant specimens from the Philippines, the account of which is very good and detailed. Ray needs the opinion of the Royal Society on the possible inclusion of the account in the Philosophical Transactions.
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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John Ray to Hans Sloane – November 2, 1698
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Date: November 2, 1698
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 151-152
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Ray thanks Sloane for his offer to supply Ray with botanical books from Drs Hermann and Boccone. He accepts and asks that Sloane sends them by the next post.
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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Name: N/A John Ray
Gender:
Age:71 years old.
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Description
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: Under Sloane's direction, Ray has been taking diascordium, which has been helping; but Ray ran out very quickly, and sent around to nearby shops. None of the shops were able to supply him with enough diascordium, and many had the incorrect herbs altogether, forcing Ray to use other cures that used items he already had at home.
As well, Ray will soon undergo cutting, which he hopes will ease the pain of his leg sores.
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Leg sores, Skin ailments, Pain, Diarrhea
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Charles Preston to Hans Sloane – November 1, 1698
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Date: November 1, 1698
Author: Charles Preston
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 149-150
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Preston discusses the exchange of specimens, catalogues, manuscripts, and Philosophical Transactions by post.
Preston was a physician and botanist who established a lengthy correspondence with Sloane, exchanging plants, seeds, books and information. His main interest was in botany, and was well-known by his contemporaries for his botanical knowledge (Anita Guerrini, Preston, Charles (16601711), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47084, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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Robert Uvedale to Hans Sloane – March 19, 1707/08
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Date: March 19, 1707/08
Author: Robert Uvedale
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: f. 120
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Uvedale thanks Sloane for his favours and the seeds he sent.
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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John Ray to Hans Sloane – August 19, 1698
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Date: August 19, 1698
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 111-112
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Ray thanks Sloane for saving the life of Francis Willughby’s only daughter. He asks to borrow botanical books.
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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Name: N/A John Ray
Gender:
Age:71 years old.
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Description
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Diagnosis
Painful, itching leg sores; leading to restless sleep, and as such, drowsiness.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment: Ray will make use of Dr Hobb's Ointment, as recommended by Sloane, as Ray's constitution can no longer handle mercury.
Response:
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Skin ailments, Leg sores, Pain
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Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – April 18, 1708
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Date: April 18, 1708
Author: Robert Sibbald
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 127-128
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Sibbald lists the books he will be sending to Sloane.
Sibbald was a physician and a geographer. He was physician to James VII (Charles W. J. Withers, Sibbald, Sir Robert (16411722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25496, accessed 19 June 2013]).
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Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane – November 20, 1716
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Date: November 20, 1716
Author: Thomas Hearne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 248-249
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Hearne sends books, including one about Sir Thomas Moore by William Roper. He encloses an advertisement for the book.
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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James Keill to Hans Sloane – September 6, 1717
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Date: September 6, 1717
Author: James Keill
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 49-50
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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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Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset to Hans Sloane – September 11, 1717
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Date: September 11, 1717
Author: Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: f. 44
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Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset (1662-1748) was a prominent politician and courtier known as the ‘Proud Duke’ (R. O. Bucholz, “Seymour, Charles, sixth duke of Somerset (1662-1748)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25158, accessed 5 July 2011]).
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Samuel Dale to Hans Sloane – August 20, 1717
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Date: August 20, 1717
Author: Samuel Dale
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: f. 35
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Dale asks Sloane to provide him with information on a plant mentioned in the Philosophical Transactions. He is going to finish his History of English Plants, which he started some time ago.
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]).