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William Faukener to Hans Sloane – April 30, 1709
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Date: April 30, 1709
Author: William Faukener
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 162
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Name: Mrs. Faukener
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Age:
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Description
"bad state of health"; "she looks as well as ever I saw her last she declare she shall dye this night and last night and continually." Postscript notes: "My mother hath not been so bad as to Confine her selfe to her bed nor her chamber."
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Diagnosis
Faukener believed his mother's disease as being only "fansey." She complained of pain, stomach troubles. Faukener is concerned that if a remedy cannot be found that "her Fansey will gain such asendant over her that she will bring her self into a great deal of misery".
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment:
Response:
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Pain, Stomach, Hypochondria, Hydropsy
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Charles Hatton to Hans Sloane – August 8, 1700
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Date: August 8, 1700
Author: Charles Hatton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 45-46
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Hatton inquires about a catalogue by Franciscus de Humphries.
Charles Hatton was the son of Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton and brother of Christopher Hatton, 1st Viscount Hatton [Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 269].
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D. Colby to Hans Sloane – May 16,1732
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Date: May 16,1732
Author: D. Colby
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 1
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Name: Lady Katherine Watson (nee Tufton), Lady Sondes
Gender: Female
Age:39
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Description
"hysterical" and "convulsive"; regular menstruation.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment: Sloane prescribed powders. Also taking Cons. Rufo. Thericac. Venet. et Sal. Absinth. Colby has also given her three blisters.
Response: Her "head has continued very well and her senses perfect" though it has been "10 days since the usuall return to Nature." Her pulse is low but regular. The powders have given her a couple of bowel movements.
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Hysteria, Convulsions, mental illness, emotions
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Thomas Graham to Hans Sloane – September 30, 1718
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Date: September 30, 1718
Author: Thomas Graham
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 177
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J. Hopson to Hans Sloane – n.d. [Monday]
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Date: n.d. [Monday]
Author: J. Hopson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 264
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Name: N/A J. Hopson
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Age:
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Description
Had pain all weekend inside penis. Had running of the reins.
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Diagnosis
Patient wondered if it was venereal, but he had checked with the woman and she was fine.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Sloane previously prescribed Linctus and Bristol water and an unnamed emulsion for running of the reins and painful urination. There was also gravel and heat in his urine.
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: He requested the strongest restoratives but he was afraid of having an infection even though he was sure he does not have one. He also wanted to know exactly what effect the medicine should have. Planned to visit Sloane when he came to London in a week or so.
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Genitals, Kidney, Urinary, Venereal complaints
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Victor Ferguson to Hans Sloane – October 19, 1699
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Date: October 19, 1699
Author: Victor Ferguson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Medical Library
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 122
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Victor Ferguson (d. 1729) was a physician of Newtown, near Belfast (Toby C. Bernard, A New Anatomy of Ireland: The Irish Protestants, 1649-1770 (Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2003), ch. 5; “Fergusons of Belfast” URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colin/FergusonsOfIreland/Belfast.htm).
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Name: N/A Victor Ferguson
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Age:
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Description
Suffered a lientary (form of diarrhoea) on December 9, 1698, which became dysenteric. He was very ill, but recovered. In February, the piles affected him and a tumour arose on the inside of his anus. By April 25th, seemed well, but started to develop a tumour in the muscles between his navel and stomach (five inches long, flat and schirrous). During summer, felt well, apart from stomach.
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Diagnosis
He diagnosed himself with a tumour on anus preceded by piles. He thought the tumour caused either by an ill humour or from mismanagement of the piles.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Self treatment for the anal tumour: injections of "detersives and bals: sulphur." For the stomach tumour he applied "Emple Deroigo" and as much mercury as he dared. For the stomach illness he treated daily with unnamed medicines and by staying away from purgatives and electuaries.
Ongoing Treatment: Sloane's prescription dated Oct. 31 noted: "vomit. can. oxym. sal. vitriol. bitter chalybeat. tinctur l steel. Bathe of spaw."
Response: He noted that his self-treatment prevented a fistula. However, he continued to have diarrhea. He also developed a tumour in the muscles between the pit of his stomach and his navel which was five inches long and flat and of a "shirrous nature." The treatment for his tumour dissolved it though he still had a disordered stomach and anorexia. His treatment gave him little respite and his appetite was beginning to fail and his digestion is still out of order. He was now "only skin and bone." He could drink no liquor except claret and even the gentlest purgative hurt his stomach and did not help at all: "the body of of my stomach is thickened by humours, which casts out a spurious juice causes a weak and bad digestion, and corrupts the very Chyle itself."
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Stomach, Tumour, Haemorrhoids
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Elizabeth Edwardes to Hans Sloane – n.d. [ca. 1726]
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Date: n.d. [ca. 1726]
Author: Elizabeth Edwardes
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: ff. 81-82
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Also reminded Sloane of their old acquaintance and her ongoing high regard for Sloane. Mentioned that she had heard that one of Sloane’s daughters had recently married Lord Cadogan’s brother. Elizabeth Sloane married Lt. Col. Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan of Oakley in 1717.[“Cadogan”, Burke’s Peerage, vol. 1 p. 465; “Cadogan”, The Complete Peerage, vol. 2, p. 461.]
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Name: Lady Elizabeth Edwardes
Gender:
Age:[m. by 1711 when first child born]
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Description
Has previously been treated by Sloane ("so long sence I have troubeld yo with a leter that prehaps yo haye quite for got yr old aquantance Lady Betty Rich [sic]".
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Diagnosis
Referred to illness as colic and gravel, "distemper of this country".
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: [May be related to letter of May 8, 1725, MS 4075, ff. 83-84. Cause of illness was putting swollen foot into water, which drove the humour into the belly.]
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: Spirits oppressed and pain in stomach "and stiches lick a wind runing all over me."
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Pain, Stomach, Emotions, Colics, Swollen foot
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Christopher Jeffries to Hans Sloane – n. d.
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Date: n. d.
Author: Christopher Jeffries
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 286
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Name: Mrs. Rider
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Age:
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Description
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Electuary, Bath Waters (as prescribed in August).
Ongoing Treatment: See ff. 289-297 for the complete case.
Response: She received no benefit from the treatment. Still had oppressed spirits and apprehensions, as well as stomach and intestinal problems, general weakness, chills and sweating. Not sleeping well.
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Emotions, Headache, Hysteria, Pain, Stomach, Eyes, Unknown
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John Conyers to Hans Sloane – June 2, 1699
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Date: June 2, 1699
Author: John Conyers
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 25
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(f. 25)
I have been from home two or three daies since I write to yu & received not yr letter till this morning during my absence my wife was much out of order & feaverish yesterday & this day she has been better, but I believe she may have taken some cold & has somewhat of a feaverish distemper upon her, for her illness returns every night about six or seven a clocke & then shee is taken with a paine in her necke burning & pricking in her feet & a paine in her head & it lasts so five or six hours she is pretty well all day till about that time & abroad a way to this [illeg] that time or somewhat later I believe it did not take her by an hour so soon to night as last night, whither you must give her any of the drinke or what you thinke proper I refer to you, but desire you to send me word to morrow morning, & if you order Mr Clapman he will send it to my chamber, & if she is not pretty well to morrow morning I will send up a man for it otherwise he may find it by my Clerke in ye Evening. before I read ye letter she had drinke some waine whey this morning but soon cast it up again having some oppression in her stomach, but after that was pretty well again & eat less dinner & so continued till about seven or eight when the fitt returned beginning with pricking pain & heat in her feet & legs & a paine in her necke & head & then her Temper feaverish as I have before mentioned.
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Name: Mrs. Mrs Conyers
Gender: Female
Age:
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Description
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Diagnosis
She has "taken cold" and he is worried she has contracted a "feverish distemper." She also pain and a pricking sensation in her neck and feet and pain in her head.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Jesuit's powder; purging
Ongoing Treatment: She drank some warm whey but then vomited it up. He wants to know if "lache" would be good for her.
Response:
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Stomach, Pain, Headache, Colds, Fevers
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E. Coles to Hans Sloane – October 28, 1718
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Date: October 28, 1718
Author: E. Coles
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 11
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