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Ralph Thoresby to Hans Sloane – May 30, 1708
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Date: May 30, 1708
Author: Ralph Thoresby
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: f. 133
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Thoresby hopes the Roman coins arrived safely. He informs Sloane that Dr Hargrave will be sending a sample of salt or vitriol.
Thoresby was an antiquary and topographer. He expanded his fathers Musaeum Thoresbyanum impressively, and his collection brought him into discussion with many important political and scholarly figures (P. E. Kell, Thoresby, Ralph (16581725), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27334, accessed 27 June 2013]).
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Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – April 24, 1708
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Date: April 24, 1708
Author: Patrick Blair
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: f. 132
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Blair sends a cast of an elephant with several descriptive tables and figures.
Patrick Blair was a botanist and surgeon whose papers were published in the Transactions. In 1715 Blair joined the Jacobite rebellion as a battle surgeon but was captured and condemned to death. He was visited by Sloane in prison in the hopes the latter might secure a pardon. Sloane was successful and the pardon arrived shortly before Blair’s scheduled execution (Anita Guerrini, Blair, Patrick (c.16801728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2568, accessed 31 May 2011]).
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Edward Southwell to Hans Sloane – August 26, 1708
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Date: August 26, 1708
Author: Edward Southwell
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 194-195
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Edward Southwell was a politician and government official. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1692. By 1702 he was appointed Secretary of State for Ireland (D. W. Hayton, Southwell, Edward (16711730), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26060, accessed 8 July 2013]).
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Charles Preston to Hans Sloane – ca. September, 1708
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Date: ca. September, 1708
Author: Charles Preston
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 212-213
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Preston believes his letters have not reached Sloane, for he has not received a reply in some time. He asks Sloane to help a young medical student find his way in London. He encloses some poems for Sloane’s pleasure.
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 1 June 2011]).
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Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine to Hans Sloane – March 8, 1687/8
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Date: March 8, 1687/8
Author: Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 5
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Hare sent a medal for Mr Charleton and invited Sloane to peruse it. He did not have time to examine the reverse of the medal found at Silchester. He has also been promised some more that have been found at Marlborough. 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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Name: Miss. Hare (Daughter of Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine)
Gender:
Age:A 'little One'.
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Description
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment: 'In the manadg of the child', author has been using advice of 'an honest Acquaintance' nearby rather than Sloane's because of Sloane's distance. In any case, both agreed in general. Keeping child 'closer (then otherwise wee would)' because of the cold weather and her body being opened. Asks Sloane if they should give her asses milk.
Response: Hare: 'so was I happy in yor Last Visit that nickt the time of my Girles illness & prescribed the first helps for her Recovery since by Gods mercy, her distemper advanced no further yn a Rank Measles; & her Cough is allmost gone away with itt, shee is now greatly purging (as farr as wee dare venture the churlish weather) & tho Weak yett nott Dull, nor affected with any bad symptome: so yt wee hope shee may scape both her former Ague, & the feared s: pox'. Has also lost her appetite.
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Unspecified, Childhood Diseases, Measles, Smallpox
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William Derham to Hans Sloane – February 21, 1709
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Date: February 21, 1709
Author: William Derham
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 296-297
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[fol. 297]
Sr Upmr Feb: 21 1708/9
I have lately recd Dr Newtons Answer from Flo-
rence wch I have send you, wherein tou will find his
willingness to accept the Societies favr of being chosen into their
Number. And by the speediness of his Ansr to that past
of my Lr, & his passing over other material matters
I have sent about, I imagine that the sooner the favour
can be done, the more acceptable it will be.
The Papers which he mentions as sent wth his Lr,
I shall bring to you when I can get next to London;
which I intend as soon as I can.
You will find by the enclosed, That in Italy the
cold hath this winter been very intense, as well as
in England. If by Twelf-Day his excellencie means
our Jan: 6th my Thermometer was then very low. But
if he means Jan: 6 N.S (as probably he doth) I find the
Italian Cold preceded ours 2 or 3 days. For the days before Jan 6: N.S
were warm, yt day it began to freeze; the two next days
were sharper frost, wth snow: but the Night after the fol-
lowing day, viz the Night between Dec: 29 & 30 O.S my Themr
was much lower than ever it was since I began my
Observations therewith in ye year 1698. Ans as his Excellence
saith they wanted but half a Degree of the extremity in Italy
on Dec: 26 (as I imagine their Twelf-Day was) so at 7 of clock in
the morning of Dec: 30 my Thermometer descended with-
in to of an inch of the very point to wch I formerly (for a tryal) forced my
Spirits down with artificial Freezing wth Snow & Salt. I have been informed
yt your Thermr in Town have this winter been lower than in the Great Frost,
altho not on the same day yt mine was. The reason of wch I conceive to be
either from the different temperature of your City, & our Countrey air: or
rather from the different Freezing within & without doors; my Thermomr
being allways kept without doors, in the open air; & your Glasses in London
yt I have had any informations from, being kept within doors.
Speaking of Artificial Freezing, give me leave to suggest one curiosity
about it, & that is That after you have made the Spirits contract as much
as is possible wth snow and salt, you may force them yet lower, & that
somewhat considerably, by pouring upon your Frigorifick Mixture Spir.
of Wine. I know other have observed yt snow & So: V will together freeze;
but I do not know whether they have observed yt it will encrease the strength
of Snow & Salt, or whether it will do more wth Snow or Ice than Salt can,
Now the cold goeth off, & gives a relaxation to my Fingers & Ink, I being to think
Of drawing up a Table of Dr Scheuchzers, Dr Tillies & my own Observations for the
Socities Use, being highly obliged to be ever Their &
Your most humble servant
Wm 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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Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine to Hans Sloane – March 8, 1687/8
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Date: March 8, 1687/8
Author: Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 5
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Hare sent a medal for Mr Charleton and invited Sloane to peruse it. He did not have time to examine the reverse of the medal found at Silchester. He has also been promised some more that have been found at Marlborough. 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]).
Patient Details
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Name: N/A Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine
Gender:
Age:A 'little One'.
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Description
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment: 'In the manadg of the child', author has been using advice of 'an honest Acquaintance' nearby rather than Sloane's because of Sloane's distance. In any case, both agreed in general. Keeping child 'closer (then otherwise wee would)' because of the cold weather and her body being opened. Asks Sloane if they should give her asses milk.
Response: Hare: 'so was I happy in yor Last Visit that nickt the time of my Girles illness & prescribed the first helps for her Recovery since by Gods mercy, her distemper advanced no further yn a Rank Measles; & her Cough is allmost gone away with itt, shee is now greatly purging (as farr as wee dare venture the churlish weather) & tho Weak yett nott Dull, nor affected with any bad symptome: so yt wee hope shee may scape both her former Ague, & the feared s: pox'. Has also lost her appetite.
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Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – June 21, 1709
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Date: June 21, 1709
Author: Patrick Blair
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: f. 337
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Blair sends an amended description of the elephant’s ear. Sloane is to make the necessary corrections. Blair hopes a publisher is found soon.
Patrick Blair was a botanist and surgeon whose papers were published in the Transactions. In 1715 Blair joined the Jacobite rebellion as a battle surgeon but was captured and condemned to death. He was visited by Sloane in prison in the hopes the latter might secure a pardon. Sloane was successful and the pardon arrived shortly before Blair’s scheduled execution (Anita Guerrini, Blair, Patrick (c.16801728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2568, accessed 31 May 2011]).
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Thomas Greene to Hans Sloane – May 17, 1709
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Date: May 17, 1709
Author: Thomas Greene
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 332-333
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Greene asks whether Sloane thinks it proper for him to contact Hales, as the latter has made enquiries regarding Greene’s estate.
Thomas Green was the Bishop of Ely and was elected vice-chancellor of Cambridge University in 1699 (Rebecca Louise Warner, Green, Thomas (bap. 1658, d. 1738), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11401, accessed 14 Aug 2013]).
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Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – May 16, 1709
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Date: May 16, 1709
Author: Patrick Blair
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 330-331
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Blair recommends the bearer, Mr Brewer, and mentions his previous letter carried by Mr White.
Patrick Blair was a botanist and surgeon whose papers were published in the Transactions. In 1715 Blair joined the Jacobite rebellion as a battle surgeon but was captured and condemned to death. He was visited by Sloane in prison in the hopes the latter might secure a pardon. Sloane was successful and the pardon arrived shortly before Blair’s scheduled execution (Anita Guerrini, Blair, Patrick (c.16801728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2568, accessed 31 May 2011]).