J. Delacoste wrote letter 4515 to Sloane. He was a physician who practiced in Bath and Paris. Nothing else is known about him.
Reference:
J. Delacoste to Hans Sloane, 1732-06-24, Sloane MS 4052, f. 137, British Library, London
A person known only by the name ‘Billerbeck’ wrote letter 4514 to Sloane. No other information about them is available.
Reference:
Billerbeck to Hans Sloane, 1735-03-28, Sloane MS 4054, f. 97, British Library, London
Von Weissenbach is leaving England. He thanks Sloane for his kindness and compliments his collection. Having pledged allegiance to the Queen, he hopes to return before winter.
The letter Sloane sent with Mangold was delivered by De Lorme, as Mangold had to travel to Holland. Bignon has been ill and has not been able to send his comments on the elephant teeth and shells. He requests copies of the Philosophical Transactions, but asks that Sloane wait to send them. The war makes it difficult for Bignon to pay for them. Jean-Paul Bignon (1662-1743) was a clergyman, librarian to Louis XIV, member of the Academie francaise, and mentor of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Bignon).
Sloane prescribed asses milk.
See ff. 287-297 for the complete case. This is the second letter.
Remedies included balsam syrup and laudanum. Cough nearly gone.
She was still vomiting and had several stools in a day. Her appetite was low and her continued symptoms aggravated her hysteria. She took little of Sloane's last prescription because it made her costive.
Isabella Pierrepont (1688-1728) was born Isabella Bentinck to Hans William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland and Anne Villiers. She married Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull in 1714 (Charles Mosley (ed), Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, Vol 3 (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke’s Peerage (Genealogical Books Ltd), 2003: p 3185).
The servant was ill, but she did not want to bring her to London because she was worried the servant had smallpox. Asked Sloane to come and see her.
smallpox
Losing sight in one eye. Sloane's note: lac. asinen. vesicator. elect. lenintus.
Mr. Amyand stopped by unexpectedly, and seeing the condition of the Duke's eyes bled him. He said he would stop by and repeat the procedure when he returned from Northhampton. But Amyand also wanted Sloane to have an update on the Duke's condition.
The Duke does not think the eye is any better and continued to loose flesh despite his otherwise good health.
Hetherington notes that the Duke will be leaving with the Duke of Bridgewater to visit his estate for a week.
See Sloane MS 4075, ff. 209, 211.
The Duke thinks his eyes are cured and doubts he will need to renew his prescription. In perfect health.
inoculated for smallpox. Patient not in correct habit for inoculation, having contracted venereal disease from London in the spring.
Smallpox. Died of the second fever.
Had recently had plaister applied to scrotum by a physician, which the surgeon did not know about.
Disagreement whether patient's clap had been cured or whether it was the cause of his death. Fever appeared day after plaister applied. Swelling in scrotum had been relieved by the time the surgeon saw it a few days later.
Author is Robert Sawyer Herbert, second son of Thomas the eighth Earl of Pembroke.
Did not find in his excrement the egg-like items he had previously seen. Bowels disordered and loose. Normally no more than two stools a day, but now very frequent. No pain at the time, but felt like guts coming away too. Became pale, with sunk spirits after each bowel movement.
He was taking spa water but stopped because it disagreed with him. He continued to take the electuary and has ordered Bristol water but would not take it until Sloane agreed.
He also had a cold which led to swollen gums and an unpleasant taste in his mouth. Later his gums also appeared blacker than usual. He wondered if the illness of his bowels had traveled to his gums.