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James Keill to Hans Sloane – July 23, 1710
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Date: July 23, 1710
Author: James Keill
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 155-156
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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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Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – July 11, 1710
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Date: July 11, 1710
Author: Robert Sibbald
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 153-154
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Sibbald reminds Sloane that he sent ’26 copies’ of his description of Fife. He asks if they arrived. Sibbald sends a copy of Duglass’ new translation of Virgil. He wants to know the Royal Society’s opinion of his description of Stirlingshire and ‘the three Lothians’.
Sir Robert 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 2 June 2011]).
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James Keill to Hans Sloane – July 9, 1710
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Date: July 9, 1710
Author: James Keill
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 151-152
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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]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: Lord Lempster
Gender:
Age:
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Description
Keill is pleased that the treatment he outlined in his letter of June 22 was successful. He notes that Sloane thought 'the spitting of blood to be much more than it really was', and tells him that Lempster 'never spit pure blood'. Keill thinks the problem is the speed of Lempster's pulse and 'stoppage of the Blood' rather than 'an inflammation in the lungs'.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: On 'fryday last' Lempster came down with a cold and his symptoms returned, but without the spitting of blood. Lempster's pulse is faster than before and breathing is more painful.
Ongoing Treatment: Keill had 'taken away a little more blood' as Sloane suggested. He 'blistered him and purged as before'.
Response: Lempster is 'better' and Keill will 'wait on him' until he receives further instruction from Sloane.
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Medical problem reference
Coughs, Colds, Lungs, Tuberculosis, Blood
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James Keill to Hans Sloane – June 22, 1710
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Date: June 22, 1710
Author: James Keill
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 148-149
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Keill’s wife would like to know if it is advisable to sit by a fire when one has a chill.
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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Patient info
Name: Lord Lempster
Gender:
Age:
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Description
Lempster 'had caught cold about a fortnight before'. Ten days previous he had a coughing fit that lasted 'some hours', followed by difficulty breathing at night and the spitting up of blood.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Lempster took Sloane's 'bitter Chalyboale Infusion', which induced vomiting as expected. After the bloody spitting, Keill 'ordered ten ounces of blood to be taken away', which caused an excess of eight ounces being drawn. The bleeding led to a quickening of the pulse. Another 'seven or eight ounces more [of blood] were twice taken away' and Keill prescribed 'Lin: Sgr: Balsam: in good large quantities'. The bleeding did not relieve any of Lempster's pain. Keill thought Lempster was going to expire 'On Sunday last', for his breathing was burdened, pulse quickened, and he was spitting blood as before.
Ongoing Treatment: Keill believes that 'tho all other Symptomes require bleeding I do not think of doing it, but rather to apply blisters, purge him tomorrow and to continue the other medicines', which he had him 'drink [with] some of the Bath Waters'. Keill is worried that he should have bled Lempster more, as the symptoms suggested that 'he was not so subject to the Dropsey than formerly'.
Response:
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Medical problem reference
Coughs, Lungs, Tuberculosis, Blood
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John Macky to Hans Sloane – June 10, 1710
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Date: June 10, 1710
Author: John Macky
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 142
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Government, Material Culture, Royal Society, Trade or Commodities, Travel
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Subjects
Auctions, Busts, Cabinet, Coins, Curiosities, Customs House of London, Italy, Jersey, Numismatics, Precious Stones, Statuary, War
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Date (as written)
June 10, 1710
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Bruges
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Others mentioned
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Patients mentioned
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Macky informs Sloane of the passing of a man who possessed a collection of curiosities that are being sold by his children. He encloses a catalogue for his consideration. Macky lists a number of interesting objects in the collection. He will not be able to reach Sloane until ‘Jersy is taken’. He does not think it will hold out much longer, and to clarify the situation he writes: ‘I mean the Town and Fort de Scarp’.
John Macky (d. 1726) was a writer and spy (J. D. Alsop, ‘Macky, John (d. 1726)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17632, accessed 17 June 2015]).
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Arthur Charlett to Hans Sloane – June 7, 1710
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Date: June 7, 1710
Author: Arthur Charlett
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 141
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Charlett informs Sloane of Dr Peirce’s death, ‘So eminent a Person of your Faculty’. He was 90 years old. Peirce is said to have died ‘without Pain’, leaving his grandson Mr Acoure £20,000. The ‘Scotch Lord Bule’ and Thomas Skipworth have also died. Charlett laments that Mr Shipper has been chosen as ‘Principal of Brasenose College’. ‘The Earl of Berkly’ is not slated to live ‘many Months’.
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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William Musgrave Sr. to Hans Sloane – April 23, 1710
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Date: April 23, 1710
Author: William Musgrave Sr.
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 126-127
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[fol. 126]
Dear Sr
I give you many thanks for the use of your Calius Aurelianus, which I have sent to London by my nephew Gatehall of the six Clercks office, with orders That He send it to your House. If He neglects so to doe you will order the servant to call on Him for it.
I am with great respect
(Dear Sr.)
Your much obliged humble
Servt
Wm Musgrave
Exon
April 23.
1710.
William Musgrave, Senior was a physician, antiquary, and Fellow of the Royal Society. He acted as second secretary to the Royal Society and edited several volumes of the Philosophical Transactions (Alick Cameron, Musgrave, William (16551721), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19668, accessed 8 July 2013]).
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Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – January 28, 1710
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Date: January 28, 1710
Author: Robert Sibbald
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 93
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Sibbald thanks Sloane for the opportunity to print a number sheets for the Royal Society. He asks for all of the Philosophical Transactions from 1707 and 1708. Sibbald wants to purchase a ‘treatise of inserts, by Mr. Ray’ and ‘both parts of Rudbokins his Atlantica’. He spoke with Mr Stuart.
Sir Robert 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 30 May 2011]).
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James Yonge to Hans Sloane – July 17, 1713
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Date: July 17, 1713
Author: James Yonge
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 164-165
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Yonge asks Sloane to present the enclosed medical cases to the Royal Society.
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]).
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Patient info
Name: N/A Unnamed Woman of Lamerton
Gender:
Age:Roughly 40 years old.
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Description
The man was an alcoholic and developed 'Tumours of his Legs and thighs, and at length of the whoel Belly'. He had trouble breathing, there was blood in his urine, he had white stools, all symptoms of what Yonge calls 'Cachexy'.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: He followed the advice of Dr P for many months. A 'Country man' who lived near the patient gave him a remedy.
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: The remedy from the 'Country man' cured him 'miraculously'.
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Gout, Haemorrhoids, Menstrual, Blood, Cancer, Inflammations
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Thomas Tanner to Hans Sloane – April 14, 1710
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Date: April 14, 1710
Author: Thomas Tanner
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 123
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[fol. 123]
I was very unfortunate when in town this time twelve month I endeavord 2 or 3 times to have paid my respects you you but miss’d you both at Bloomsbury and the Coffeehouse. My brother the Chirurgeon in Fan-church street was in my last letter mentioning the kind notice you were pleased to take of him; if he understands his business so well as to deserve your recommendation and encouragemt any assistance you’l be so kind as to afford him will be a great addition to your former favors to me, and ever thankfully acknowleged by
Sir
Your most humble servt
Thom. Tanner
Norwich
Apr. 14.
1710.
Thomas Tanner was the Bishop of St Asaph, an antiquary, and scholar. He was an associate of Arthur Charlett, another Sloane correspondent and Master of University College, Oxford. He left academic life at Oxford in 1698 to take up a clerical position at Norwich, which led to a career in the Church (Richard Sharp, Tanner, Thomas (16741735), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26963, accessed 4 July 2013]).