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James Keill to Hans Sloane – July 17, 1712
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Date: July 17, 1712
Author: James Keill
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 60-61
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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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Name: N/A Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds
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Description
Osborne's condition has not improved since Sloane saw him. He has a fever and is 'exremely high headed'. He has a 'pain in his side' and regurgitates everything he takes in. His 'pulse intermitted, he had twitchings of the Tendons, and was all in cold clammy sweats'. His symptoms disappeared at noon, but returned later in the day. He urinates frequently and 'made a great plenty of water [...] and voided a small stone'. He continues to have trouble keeping anything in his stomach.
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Stone, Sweats, Vomiting, Tendons, Urinary, Stomach, Headache, Fevers
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Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane – January 16, 1710/11
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Date: January 16, 1710/11
Author: Thomas Hearne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 225-226
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Hearne sent ‘ten Copies of the 11th Volume of Leland’s Itinerary’ to London for Clements, who will sell them for 42 shillings apiece. Clements’s father will reimburse Hearne in Oxford. A further 8 copies of the treatise were sent to Dr Thorpe.
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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John Hough to Hans Sloane – July 28, 1712
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Date: July 28, 1712
Author: John Hough
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 62-63
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Hough thanks Sloane for treating Mrs Hough’s nephew.
John Hough was the President of Magdalen College, Oxford and the Bishop of Worcester. He published several anti-Catholic pamphlets during his career (Julian Lock, Hough, John (16511743), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13862, accessed 14 June 2011]).
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James Keill to Hans Sloane – July, 1712
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Date: July, 1712
Author: James Keill
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 66-67
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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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Name: N/A Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds
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Description
Osborne's 'Colon above the Right Kidney was mortified, and the Gangreen had likewise seized part of the Kidney. The Left Kidney was wasted without any ulcer, a large stone filled the upper part of the Ureter. The Gula was contracted within an inch of the Diaphragma, and very much diluted above. The Right side of the Thorax there was about a pint of Serum'.
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Keill solicits Sloane's advice on how best to treat Osborne.
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Kidney, Urinary, Stone, Pain
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James Keill to Hans Sloane – November 7, 1710
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Date: November 7, 1710
Author: James Keill
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 201-202
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Keill asks Sloane to forward a letter to his, Kiell’s, wife.
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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James Keill to Hans Sloane – January 14, 1710
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Date: January 14, 1710
Author: James Keill
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 223-224
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Keill apologizes for his delayed response, but affirms that he received the bill Sloane sent him.
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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John McBride to Hans Sloane – July 29, 1712
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Date: July 29, 1712
Author: John McBride
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 68-69
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McBride claims that he suffers from ‘the Disease [of] Nonjurancy’ and had to flee to Ireland to escape a prison term. He asks Sloane to seek a pardon for him.
John McBride (ca. 1650-1718) was Minister of the Presbyterian General Synod of Ulster and a religious controversialist (D. W. Hayton, ‘McBride, John (c.1650–1718)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17361, accessed 14 June 2011]).
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John Arbuthnot to Hans Sloane – August 4, 1712
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Date: August 4, 1712
Author: John Arbuthnot
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 72-73
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Arbuthnot thanks Sloane for ‘all [his] favours’.
Arbuthnot was a physician and satirist most famous for his John Bull pamphlets which led to the character becoming a national symbol (Angus Ross, Arbuthnot , John (bap. 1667, d. 1735), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/610, accessed 14 June 2011]).
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Fettiplace Bellers to Hans Sloane – October 24, 1710
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Date: October 24, 1710
Author: Fettiplace Bellers
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 195-196
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[fol. 196]
Hond Doctor
I Am Asham’d that
I did not returne this book you
favourd me with, sooner. I went
out of Town so soon after I
had it that I Could not Read it
there. I hope you will Excuse
this neglect Sr your
Oblig’d Friend
Fettiplace Beller
Cown Allins Octobr ye 24 1710
If you get any of Langius’s
Books I hope you w’ll do
me the favour of keeping
one for me.
Bellers, whose parents were Quakers, was a philosophical writer and playwright (Arthur Sherbo, Bellers, Fettiplace (b. 1687, d. in or before 1750), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2049, accessed 3 June 2011]).
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Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield to Hans Sloane – August 11, 1712
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Date: August 11, 1712
Author: Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 74-75
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Stanhope was a courtier and politician. He retired to Bretby and spent part of his time in London (Stuart Handley, Stanhope, Philip, second earl of Chesterfield (16331714), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26253, accessed 14 June 2011]).