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Ralph Freman to Hans Sloane – November 6, 1714
Item info
Date: November 6, 1714
Author: Ralph Freman
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 308-309
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Transcription
Freman’s son has come to visit him.
Ralph Freman (1627-1714) was MP for Hertfordshire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Freman_(1627-1714)).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Ralph Freman
Gender:
Age:
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Description
Freman's stomach is out of sorts. He is constipated. The pain is relieved with every bowel movement. One leg is swollen and the other has begun to swell.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment: Freman has sent his 'Charriott' to bring Sloane to him for a consultation and treatment.
Response:
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Medical problem reference
Pain, Stomach, Inflammations, Constipation
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W. Fletcher to Hans Sloane – December 22, 1714
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Date: December 22, 1714
Author: W. Fletcher
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 3
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Transcription
Fletcher offers his service to Sloane until his father comes to town.
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Étienne François Geoffroy to Hans Sloane – June 15, 1715
Item info
Date: June 15, 1715
Author: Étienne François Geoffroy
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 58-59
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Language
French
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Material Culture, Royal Society, Scientific, Travel
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Subjects
Astronomy, Books, Cabinet, Chemistry, Curiosities, Education, Jardin du Roi, Portraiture, Solar Eclipse, Sun
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Date (as written)
June 15, 1715
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
a Paris
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Others mentioned
Sir Isaac Newton Jean Anisson Abbe Jean Paul Bignon M. De Jussieu M. Ganeau
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Patients mentioned
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Transcription
Geoffroy compliments Sloane’s cabinet of curiosities and relates his warm relations with Sir Isaac Newton. He is trying to procure a ‘portrait de l’eclipse’ and a book. Geoffroy’s brother is beginning his studies at the Jardin du Roi in chemistry. There will be a demonstration at the Royal College. He sends respects from De Monmort, De Jussieu, Anisson, and Gambarini.
Etienne Francois Geoffroy (1672-1731) was an apothecary and physician who studied at Montpellier, like Sloane, and worked at the Jardin du Roi and College Royal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etienne_Francois_Geoffroy).
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Jacques Eugene d'Allonville, Chevalier de Louville par Fontenelle to Hans Sloane – July 10, 1715
Item info
Date: July 10, 1715
Author: Jacques Eugene d'Allonville, Chevalier de Louville par Fontenelle
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 75-76
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Transcription
Allonville thanks Sloane and the Royal Society for admitting him a Fellow of such an ‘illustre corps’. He comments on the Moon’s atmosphere and the movements of Venus and Jupiter in relation to it.
Jacques Eugene Allonville (1671-1732) was a French astronomer and mathematician. He fought in the War of the Spanish Succession and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1715 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_d’Allonville).
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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – July 14, 1715
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Date: July 14, 1715
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 78-79
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Transcription
The Baron and Baroness de Goerif send their compliments and thank Sloane for allowing them to view his collection. They will arrive between ten o’clock and noon tomorrow.
Johann Georg Steigertahl (1666-1740) was the personal physician to George I of England. He was a member of the Royal Society and secured the purchase of Engelbert Kaempfer’s collection of East Asian curiosities for Sir Hans Sloane in 1723 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Steigerthal).
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Victor Ferguson to Hans Sloane – August 10, 1715
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Date: August 10, 1715
Author: Victor Ferguson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 84-85
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Transcription
Ferguson wants to procure the best glasses he can for his only son. He writes of the Jacobite Risings and his opinion of them.
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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William Sloane (Sir Hans Sloane's Nephew) to Hans Sloane – September 10, 1715
Item info
Date: September 10, 1715
Author: William Sloane (Sir Hans Sloane's Nephew)
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 96
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[fol. 96] Paris Sep’r 10th 1715 Hon’d S’r I beg pardon for my omission, in not writting an account of the delivery of your books before. but I stayed for to pay my respects to Mr Geffroy, whose bussiness hindred him from speaking to me. I am showed a great many Civilities here by the learned men when they happen to hear my name in telling how much they adore you, and wish they were capable of serving me to shew the veneration and Esteem they have of one of the greatest men of the age, and other other compliments they express of you which would lose their beauty under y pen I arrived here in good time to see the manor of the king’s burial; in every Church prayers are made for the kings soul which they say he has need of, The people here loved the king when Living, but tell us they are too wise to be concerned for him when dead. The young king has a mind to save money for it is thought The Machine of Marby will be destroyed and is contentd to live in Vincanes tho’ very much inferiour to Versailes or marby I go to morrow for the Country towards Orleans there to apply my self to french for 6 weeks and then to take the Rout that was proposed in London. Pray give my Duty to my Aunt and Love and service to y Cusins from Hon’d S’r Your most obedient and Dutiful nephew Will’m Sloane
William Sloane (d. 1767), son of William Sloane (d. 1728), was Sir Hans Sloane’s nephew. When his father died, William became a trustee to his uncle Hans. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1722. William participated in the transfer of his uncle’s collection to the British Museum after the latter’s death (Stanley A. Hawkins, ‘Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1735): His Life and Legacy’, The Ulster Medical Journal 79, 1 (2010): 25-29).
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Richard Middleton Massey to Hans Sloane – June 4, 1716
Item info
Date: June 4, 1716
Author: Richard Middleton Massey
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 166-167
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Material Culture, Royal Society, Scholarship
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Subjects
Coat of Arms, Coins, Hailstorm, Horde, Pictures, Weather
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Date (as written)
June 4, 1716
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Wisbech
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Others mentioned
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Patients mentioned
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Transcription
Massey informs Sloane of a countryman who came across a horde of copper coins while ploughing. He has not seen them himself. Massey happened upon a motto and coat of arms that may be of interest to the Royal Society. A large hailstorm occurred near Wisbech. He asks if he can copy one of Sloane’s pictures.
Richard Middleton Massey (1678-1743) attended Brasenose College, Oxford but left before obtaining a degree. In 1706 he was admitted Extra-Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and settled in Wisbech where he practiced medicine. Massey was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712. He compiled the catalogue of the library of the Royal College of Physicians in 1727 (http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2969).
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Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre to Hans Sloane – April 14, 1714
Item info
Date: April 14, 1714
Author: Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 245-246
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Transcription
Castel asks Sloane whether it is true that he thinks a peace between their two nations is unattainable. For ‘c’est a dire’ that Sloane is one of those who does not foresee a lasting peace in the Treaty of Utrecht. Castel states that if this is true he will personally come to London to try to convince Sloane and his like-minded friends that peace in Europe is achievable. He requests a response as well as Sloane’s thoughts on the subject.
Charles-Irenee Castel de Saint-Pierre (1658-1743) was a French clergyman and author. He proposed an international political organization be founded in Europe and influenced the thought of Kant and Rousseau. He was made a fellow of the Academie francaise in 1695 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Irenee_Castel_de_Saint-Pierre).
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John Welbe to Hans Sloane – September 18, 1716
Item info
Date: September 18, 1716
Author: John Welbe
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 213
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Legal, Patronage, Scientific, Travel
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Subjects
Australia, Debts, Exploration, Pharmaceuticals, Prison, Venereal Disease
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Date (as written)
September 18, 1716
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Wood Street Compter
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Others mentioned
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Patients mentioned
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Transcription
Welbe seeks support for a proposed excursion to ‘Terra Australis Incognita’, which he thinks would be of great advantage to Britain. He is in prison due to his owing ‘the summ of six pound (which debt was ocationed by my long attendance at the Court’. He includes a recipe for an ‘antivenerial water’.