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E. Herbert to Hans Sloane – n.d.
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Date: n.d.
Author: E. Herbert
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 221
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Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent to Hans Sloane – n.d. [ca. 1702-1716]
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Date: n.d. [ca. 1702-1716]
Author: Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 346
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J. Lane to Hans Sloane – July 17, 1723
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Date: July 17, 1723
Author: J. Lane
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 367
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Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: Lord Harold
Gender:
Age:Anthony Grey, Earl of Harold b. 1695/6, d. 1723 [Burke's Peerage, vol. 1, p. 1065]
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Description
Swelling on side of face, chin and throat. High fever. Restless sleep.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: In company of Sloane, had bled patient.
Ongoing Treatment: Bled him that morning. Crem. tart. and manna; glyster; emollient cataplasm; blister on shoulders and arm. Considering emollient fomentation. Following method agreed with Sloane.
Response:
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Medical problem reference
Fevers, Inflammations
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John Gratwicke to Hans Sloane – September 11, 1720
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Date: September 11, 1720
Author: John Gratwicke
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 181
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Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A John Gratwicke
Gender:
Age:
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Description
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Diagnosis
His Apothecary said that his bleeding was from the Piles and Gratwicke wanted Sloane's advice about it.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment: He was taking vomits, pills, spa water and bitter wine before dinner according to Sloane's directions.
Response: He felt stronger and his appetite was better but was troubled with gnawing pains in his bowels and back, which kept moving around. He was also costive and voided blood, which he had done for some time though not noticed. pains which he feels, despite what his apothecary says, comes from piles. He also had swelling in his legs and belly and urine of a "high colour", which had altered little.
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Medical problem reference
Back, Urinary, Stomach, Pain, Kidney, Inflammations, Blood, Haemorrhoids
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Alexander Findlater to Hans Sloane – March 27, 1719
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Date: March 27, 1719
Author: Alexander Findlater
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: ff. 147-148
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Patient Details
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Name: Captain Clesse
Gender:
Age:
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Description
f. 148 is a report on Cleese's condition and physical symptoms.
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Diagnosis
Gout and unknown swelling.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: (See Sloane MS 4075, ff. 136-140, 146.)
Ongoing Treatment: f. 147 is Findlater's comments. He noted that Cleese continued following Sloane's directions. This included vomits and purges.
Response: Sloane's prescription seemed to help the goutish pains, although the swellings in his foot and reddish legs continued. They wondered if purging should be stopped. Since the gout, the swelling in his body and belly went, but had worsened in his thighs, legs and foot. His stomach bore the vomits, which helped his breathing. The urine quantity was sufficient, but high-coloured.
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Medical problem reference
Gout, Inflammations, Stomach, Urinary
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Arthur Rawdon to Hans Sloane – April 30, 1690
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Date: April 30, 1690
Author: Arthur Rawdon
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 76-77
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Rawdon asks Sloane to urge his brother to respond to Rawdon’s letters. He hopes Sloane has sent the seeds he promised by George Dunbar. Rawdon and his wife send their best wishes.
Sir Arthur Rawdon (1662-1695), 2nd Baronet was the son of Sir George Rawdon, 1st Baronet and Hon. Dorothy Conway. Arthur married Helena Garham circa February 1681/2 (George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume III, page 318).
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Arthur Rawdon to Hans Sloane – June 24, 1691
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Date: June 24, 1691
Author: Arthur Rawdon
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 105
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Rawdon thanks Sloane for helping Lady Graham and asks Sloane to help one Thomas Harrison, a gardener, find work.
Sir Arthur Rawdon (1662-1695), 2nd Baronet was the son of Sir George Rawdon, 1st Baronet and Hon. Dorothy Conway. Arthur married Helena Garham circa February 1681/2 (George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume III, page 318).
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Arthur Rawdon to Hans Sloane – March 30, 1692
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Date: March 30, 1692
Author: Arthur Rawdon
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 115-116
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Rawdon received Sloane’s last letter. He wants to know how ‘we can be most serviceable’ to Mrs Bayly. Captain Maxwell is apparently courting Sloane’s sister (Alice). Rawdon wonders ‘w’t is become of James. I fear he has a designe to cheat me for I can not hear the least thing from him… Mr Sherard has this year found many new funguses’.
Sir Arthur Rawdon (1662-1695), 2nd Baronet was the son of Sir George Rawdon, 1st Baronet and Hon. Dorothy Conway. Arthur married Helena Garham circa February 1681/2 (George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume III, page 318).
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Charles Hatton to Hans Sloane – July 1, 1696
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Date: July 1, 1696
Author: Charles Hatton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 240-241
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Hatton explains that he has a number of friends wishing to exploit his connection to Sloane to gain consultations with the esteemed doctor.
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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Charles Hatton to Hans Sloane – December 31, 1697
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Date: December 31, 1697
Author: Charles Hatton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 4-5
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Hatton thanks Sloane and his wife for all of their favours. He apologizes for not being able to wait on them as per Sloane’s ‘obliging invitation’. Hatton informs Sloane that Mr Isted will be waiting on him at the Temple Coffee House to beg for the favour of a letter of recommendation from Sloane to present to Tournefort.
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].