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John Neale to Hans Sloane – February 2, 1718/9
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Date: February 2, 1718/9
Author: John Neale
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 145
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Fol. 145
Master Digby a youth of 8 or 9 years of Age, naturally of a strong habit of Body, was affected about a yr ago with a deep jaundice, which some have imputed to a blow he had upon his stomach, but I rather think from obstructions for upon his taking a few doses of pil.rutti.rad.gent.puls and sal absinth at nights when he went to bed, and in the morning 5 spoonfuls of this following decoc…he was perfectly cured and continued hearty and well till the middle of December last, since that time he has labour’d under an obstinate jaundice and the same medicines I presume was made us of which cured him before, but not with that success upon my being called to him I vomited him with a tincture of ipecacuana and gave him rhubarb a scruple made into pills with a few grains of crocus martis; at nights and in the mornings 5 or 6 spoonfuls of the decoc above mentioned; these never moved him without the help of a clyster, nor made any alteration for the better either in his stools urine or complexion, upon which I gave him an infusion of senna, rhubarb and cream of tartar with … and this gave him 3 or 4 stools, and he grew much more lightsom and easy after. I design to repeat this once in 4 or 5 days, and on the intermitting days he takes an infusion … with an expression of millipedes and a few drops of spirit salt armoniac. I find this agrees with him much better than the bitter ingredients and steel and am in great hopes the obstructions will be removed by it. At present his water is of as deep a dye as…, but separates and deposites a very large sediment; his stools are of a light ash colour as before I took this last method with him he was every day pained and griped in his Belly, which now has quite left him. This Sir I have given you as full a description of this little Gentlemen’s case attended with all its symptoms as possibly I can, and should be glad to have yr opinion of him. If you approve of this, or any other method you shall hint to me it shall punctually be observed…
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Name: Master Digby
Gender:
Age:8 or 9 years of age.
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Description
Naturally strong habit of body.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Sal absinth[e] [taken at night]; decoction; vomited [with a tincture of ipecacuana; rhubarb; scruple made into pills with a few grains of crocus martis; cylster; infusion of senna, rhubarb, cream of tartar; expression of millipedes; spirit of salt armoniac.
Ongoing Treatment: Continue the alternating regimen of infusions.
Response:
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Jaundice, Stomach, Urinary
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M. Mayhew to Elizabeth Sloane (Sir Hans Sloane's Wife) – April 10, n.d.
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Date: April 10, n.d.
Author: M. Mayhew
Recipient: Elizabeth Sloane (Sir Hans Sloane's Wife)
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 134
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(f. 134)
Madm
My good Lord has benn so kind as to tell me I should wright you an acount of my unhappy complaints which is a mixture of pains all over me from head to futt in the furst place in my head neck shoulders in all my joynts with a great weakeness and soreness in them till I ame lame of my Anckls & feete & paunes me as bad in beed as when I stur about & my head is worst when laid. it trobls me much in my stumach & in my back till I know not how to rise when I am sett nor how to sett long it trouble me so not all these places at once but runs a bout some times worst in one place and somtimes in an other with faint cold sweets I have takne three purges & benn bluded but it dos noe good att all–
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it has binn upon me at time this 800 years but never left me since Xmas last not a weeke together I wish I had better helth to sence in my place better then now I am able this I hope you will be so kind as to tell ye docter
This from your humble
servant M Mayhew
April ye 10th
Possibly addressed to Elizabeth Sloane, probably before 1715 when Sloane was knighted.
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Lincoln to Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle – October 1, 1729
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Date: October 1, 1729
Author: Lincoln
Recipient: Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 159
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Fol. 159
Ld Clinton’s cold is much better now and I do not perceive he is at all weaker or less active, than when I came, but rather mends in that respect every day, but since he has had it. He has of evenings been too hot, and what I am sure is, having a little fever for some few hours, and then comes to good temper again. There is a physician in this town, who I was obliged to send for to the other children, and as I found him a plain reasonable man, tho’ not an eminent one, I was willing to hear what he said; He assures me with great positiveness that the child’s lungs cannot yet be touched by the exercise He sees him use with ease and he’s being generally so free from fever. He says indoubtedly [sic], there is a great tendency towards it, and that it requires the utmost care to prevent it, He thinks the present feaverishness that alarms me, is of no consequence but proceeds from a little disorder at his stomach, as he has had a little purging with it, and I have by the Doctor’s advice given him some Rhubarb and syrup of sychory, which he thinks will carry it quite off, as I find by Him and others that this is not a proper place for winter, tho’ yet it is v. fine weather here and I am impatient to move him whilst it is so, and shall therefore lett him and Lady Ann sett out tomorrow for Aix. It is four days journey from hence to Aix, and I think the travelling is good for him, and am in hopes that as the air agreed with him so well last winter it will do so again, whilst the cold weather lasts.
Her Ldyp desires to know, in case the air of Aix should not agree with Ld Clinton, whether it would not be right to move Him into Italy, what time will be the most proper for him to go, and how long should he stay there?
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Lincoln to Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle – September 28, 1729
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Date: September 28, 1729
Author: Lincoln
Recipient: Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 161
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Transcription
Fol. 161
All the children have been out of order, this last week, but are now pretty well again; Lady Lucy, has had, the St Anthony’s fire in her arm; and a little fever in it, but is now quite well again, she was let blood, and tooke some physick, which has carry’d it, quite off. Harry and Lady Anne have have both had a purging ever since they came here, and indeed have had something of it, even on the road, but for this week past, it was to a great degree, and frightened me, tho’ Harry has never been in the least ill with it, so I think is not at all alter’d with it, tho’ t’as been so long upon him and I send for a Dr to them who told me it was a common effect of change of air, and was partly occasion’d by my having let them eat too much in their journey, and that t’was very happy it took that run, he has given them some little things, that have abated it, and agree with them. Harry’s is now very little and he is [ ] find Ly Anne is as gay as ever, but a good [line torn] before this looseness, she came into France. She hardly ever coughs and has no sort of fever and breaths well of nights, which she did not at home.
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Name: Lady Lucy
Gender:
Age:Child
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Description
Harry had 'had a purging ever since they came here [Vigan]', the condition of which frightened Lady Lincoln, though he did not appear 'in the least ill with it...[nor] alter'd with it', despite the lingering nature of the illness.
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Diagnosis
A local Doctor thought the condition was due to 'a change of air' and overeating during their journey.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: Doctor proscribed 'some little things' which abated their symptoms.
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Skin ailments, Fevers, Stomach, Stomach
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Lincoln to Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle – September 28, 1729
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Date: September 28, 1729
Author: Lincoln
Recipient: Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 161
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Transcription
Fol. 161
All the children have been out of order, this last week, but are now pretty well again; Lady Lucy, has had, the St Anthony’s fire in her arm; and a little fever in it, but is now quite well again, she was let blood, and tooke some physick, which has carry’d it, quite off. Harry and Lady Anne have have both had a purging ever since they came here, and indeed have had something of it, even on the road, but for this week past, it was to a great degree, and frightened me, tho’ Harry has never been in the least ill with it, so I think is not at all alter’d with it, tho’ t’as been so long upon him and I send for a Dr to them who told me it was a common effect of change of air, and was partly occasion’d by my having let them eat too much in their journey, and that t’was very happy it took that run, he has given them some little things, that have abated it, and agree with them. Harry’s is now very little and he is [ ] find Ly Anne is as gay as ever, but a good [line torn] before this looseness, she came into France. She hardly ever coughs and has no sort of fever and breaths well of nights, which she did not at home.
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Name: Lady Anne
Gender:
Age:Child
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Description
Lady Anne had 'had a purging ever since they came here [Vigan]', the condition of which frightened Lady Lincoln, though he did not appear 'in the least ill with it...[nor] alter'd with it', despite the lingering nature of the illness.
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Diagnosis
A local Doctor thought the condition was due to 'a change of air' and overeating during their journey.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: Doctor proscribed 'some little things' which abated their symptoms.
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Skin ailments, Fevers, Stomach, Stomach
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Lincoln to Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle – September 28, 1729
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Date: September 28, 1729
Author: Lincoln
Recipient: Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 161
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Transcription
Fol. 161
All the children have been out of order, this last week, but are now pretty well again; Lady Lucy, has had, the St Anthony’s fire in her arm; and a little fever in it, but is now quite well again, she was let blood, and tooke some physick, which has carry’d it, quite off. Harry and Lady Anne have have both had a purging ever since they came here, and indeed have had something of it, even on the road, but for this week past, it was to a great degree, and frightened me, tho’ Harry has never been in the least ill with it, so I think is not at all alter’d with it, tho’ t’as been so long upon him and I send for a Dr to them who told me it was a common effect of change of air, and was partly occasion’d by my having let them eat too much in their journey, and that t’was very happy it took that run, he has given them some little things, that have abated it, and agree with them. Harry’s is now very little and he is [ ] find Ly Anne is as gay as ever, but a good [line torn] before this looseness, she came into France. She hardly ever coughs and has no sort of fever and breaths well of nights, which she did not at home.
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Name: N/A Harry
Gender:
Age:Child
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Description
Harry had 'had a purging ever since they came here [Vigan]', the condition of which frightened Lady Lincoln, though he did not appear 'in the least ill with it...[nor] alter'd with it', despite the lingering nature of the illness.
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Diagnosis
A local Doctor thought the condition was due to 'a change of air' and overeating during their journey.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: Doctor proscribed 'some little things' which abated their symptoms.
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Skin ailments, Fevers, Stomach, Stomach
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Lincoln to Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle – September 28, 1729
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Date: September 28, 1729
Author: Lincoln
Recipient: Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 161
Original Page
Transcription
Fol. 161
All the children have been out of order, this last week, but are now pretty well again; Lady Lucy, has had, the St Anthony’s fire in her arm; and a little fever in it, but is now quite well again, she was let blood, and tooke some physick, which has carry’d it, quite off. Harry and Lady Anne have have both had a purging ever since they came here, and indeed have had something of it, even on the road, but for this week past, it was to a great degree, and frightened me, tho’ Harry has never been in the least ill with it, so I think is not at all alter’d with it, tho’ t’as been so long upon him and I send for a Dr to them who told me it was a common effect of change of air, and was partly occasion’d by my having let them eat too much in their journey, and that t’was very happy it took that run, he has given them some little things, that have abated it, and agree with them. Harry’s is now very little and he is [ ] find Ly Anne is as gay as ever, but a good [line torn] before this looseness, she came into France. She hardly ever coughs and has no sort of fever and breaths well of nights, which she did not at home.
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Patient info
Name: Lady Lucy
Gender:
Age:Child
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Description
Lady Anne had 'had a purging ever since they came here [Vigan]', the condition of which frightened Lady Lincoln, though he did not appear 'in the least ill with it...[nor] alter'd with it', despite the lingering nature of the illness.
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Diagnosis
A local Doctor thought the condition was due to 'a change of air' and overeating during their journey.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: Doctor proscribed 'some little things' which abated their symptoms.
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Skin ailments, Fevers, Stomach, Stomach
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Lincoln to Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle – September 28, 1729
Item info
Date: September 28, 1729
Author: Lincoln
Recipient: Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 161
Original Page
Transcription
Fol. 161
All the children have been out of order, this last week, but are now pretty well again; Lady Lucy, has had, the St Anthony’s fire in her arm; and a little fever in it, but is now quite well again, she was let blood, and tooke some physick, which has carry’d it, quite off. Harry and Lady Anne have have both had a purging ever since they came here, and indeed have had something of it, even on the road, but for this week past, it was to a great degree, and frightened me, tho’ Harry has never been in the least ill with it, so I think is not at all alter’d with it, tho’ t’as been so long upon him and I send for a Dr to them who told me it was a common effect of change of air, and was partly occasion’d by my having let them eat too much in their journey, and that t’was very happy it took that run, he has given them some little things, that have abated it, and agree with them. Harry’s is now very little and he is [ ] find Ly Anne is as gay as ever, but a good [line torn] before this looseness, she came into France. She hardly ever coughs and has no sort of fever and breaths well of nights, which she did not at home.
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Harry
Gender:
Age:Child
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Description
Lady Lucy was suffering with St Anthony's fire in her arm, accompanied by a little fever.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Blood was let and she took 'some physick'.
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: Patient responded to treatment and no further course of action was proscribed.
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Skin ailments, Fevers, Stomach, Stomach
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Richard Middleton Massey to Hans Sloane – August 22, 1721
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Date: August 22, 1721
Author: Richard Middleton Massey
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 122-123
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Library, Material Culture, Philosophical Transactions, Royal College of Physicians, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Apothecaries, Art, Books, Botany, Coins, Paintings
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Date (as written)
August 22, 1721
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Wisbech
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Others mentioned
Mr Innys Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
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Patients mentioned
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Massey thanks Sloane for sending the Philosophical Transactions with Mr Innys. He has been ‘drawing after my fashion the flowers of seeds and plants in water colours […] I partly copy after Tournefort’. Massey occupies his time with painting and examining his ‘small collection of Roman Coins’. He ‘laid out fifty guinneas in books being the conjoyn librarys of a french and English Clergyman at Thorney abbey’. The postscript reads: ‘Some Apothecarys in my neighborhood have a notion they may easily for a little mony be admitted by the colledge ad Practicanda. I hope through yr means to prevent those who have no just qualification’. Massey includes a list of books, indicating the title, location of its publication, and date.
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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Thomas Isted to Hans Sloane – May 21, 1721
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Date: May 21, 1721
Author: Thomas Isted
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 82-83
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Isted thanks Sloane for treating Mr Rushworth and his other patients. He hopes they make it to Bath safely. Isted’s mother is to receive a ‘Pot of Pomatum’. She is ‘much better’. Some of Isted’s Jamaican lands, ‘called Hypperley’, have been sold. He shipped ‘sugar from [his] Plantation on board the Jenny [by] Capt: Robert Pitt Commander’.
Thomas Isted (1677-1731) was a barrister. He married Anne Rose, the daughter of Elizabeth Sloane and step-daughter of Sir Hans Sloane (https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=1&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27isted%27%29).