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Patrick Dun to Hans Sloane – January 26, 1705/06
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Date: January 26, 1705/06
Author: Patrick Dun
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 124-125
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Dun and Cummying have a petitioned the House of Commons, seeking the pay they are entitled to for military service in Ireland.
Sir Patrick Dun (1642-1713) graduated in arts at Merichal College in 1658 and studied at Valence in France. He became doctor of Physic of Trinity College, Dublin and in 1677 incorporated in absentia MD at Oxford. Dun was appointed physician to the state and to James, Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and elected one of 14 Fellows of the Irish College of Physicians. He was elected president of the College from 1681 to 1687. In 1683, he was one of the founding members of the Dublin Philosophical Society. Dun supported the study of Anatomy and arranged dissections of human bodies. He became one of the leading physicians in Dublin. In 1688, he supported the Willamite side and fled the country until 1689 when he was appointed physician to King Williams army. He was reelected president of the Irish College of Physicians in 1690, 1692, 1696, 1698 and 1706. Dun was married in 1694 and knighted in 1696. In 1705, he was appointed physician to the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham. Dun died in 1713 after a short illness. (Davis Coakley, “Dun, Sir Patrick (16421713)”, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).
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William Fisher to Hans Sloane – September 19, 1705
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Date: September 19, 1705
Author: William Fisher
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: f. 65
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Fisher asks Sloane to send his ‘comands by ye first post’. He apologizes for not having been able to leave sooner. He will be ‘att portsmouth till ye sixt instant’. The ship is being prepared for its voyage.
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Ann Ashe to Gibbons – September 7, 1698
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Date: September 7, 1698
Author: Ann Ashe
Recipient: Gibbons
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 117-118
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Mary Ashe (d. 1705) was born Mary Wilson to Robert Wilson and Katharine Rudd. She Married Joseph Ashe, 1st Baronet, who was the son of James Ashe and Grace Pitt. Mary and Joseph were married before 1658 (George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume III, page 122).
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John Plummer to Hans Sloane – April 18, 1702
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Date: April 18, 1702
Author: John Plummer
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 326-327
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Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A John Plummer
Gender:
Age:
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Description
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Diagnosis
Constipation, with stools that are 'slimy and hard like sheeps' dung'; constant pushing on his bladder and coloured urine; pain.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Took syrup of poppies.
Ongoing Treatment: The patient is bled regularly and 'diligently' taking the unspecified syrup recommended by Sloane.
Response: The syrup of poppies gave the patient a 'comfortable' stool.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Urinary, Constipation, Stomach, Pain
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Anna Hermann to Hans Sloane – September 23, 1698
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Date: September 23, 1698
Author: Anna Hermann
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 125-126
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Hermann informs Sloane that she delayed writing him back until the book was complete. The latter being the case, she has included copies for Sloane and others. Each book costs ‘6 Gil a pice’.
Anna Hermann was the wife of Leiden-based physician and botanist Paul Hermann (1646-1695) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hermann).
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Mary Ashe to Hans Sloane – Sunday, n.d. [1699?]
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Date: Sunday, n.d. [1699?]
Author: Mary Ashe
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 200-201
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Mary Ashe (d. 1705) was born Mary Wilson to Robert Wilson and Katharine Rudd. She Married Joseph Ashe, 1st Baronet, who was the son of James Ashe and Grace Pitt. Mary and Joseph were married before 1658 (George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume III, page 122).
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John Ray to Hans Sloane – November 22, 1699
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Date: November 22, 1699
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 353-354
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Medical, Scholarship
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Subjects
America, Books, Maryland, Plants, Specimens, Straits of Magellan
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Date (as written)
November 22, 1699
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Standardised date
November 22, 1699
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Origin (as written)
Black Notley
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Others mentioned
Mr Smith Tentzelius
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Patients mentioned
John Ray
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Ray is waiting to hear if Sloane received the Maryland plants he returned. He asks if Sloane will lend him plant specimens from the Magellan Straights and let him know his reply to Tentzelius. Ray hopes Sloane has not taken offence at any action or ‘miscarriage of mind’. He blames Mr Smith for the misunderstanding about the books. He is in great pain (described below). Wife sends her humble service.
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: Mr John Ray
Gender:
Age:71 years old.
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Description
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Diagnosis
Painful, ulcerous leg sores; so painful that Ray cannot work.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Fomentations and purges.
Ongoing Treatment: Ray spends almost entire mornings dressing his sores.
Response: The fomentations and purges have had no effect; Ray would like to know what Sloane thinks of purging with Turbith Mineral, as it was recommended to him.
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Medical problem reference
Leg sores, Skin ailments, Pain
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Charles Hatton to Hans Sloane – May 8, 1700
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Date: May 8, 1700
Author: Charles Hatton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: f. 13
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Hatton’s friend wants to know the Latin name, country of origin, and a general description of the root known as ‘Rochambole’.
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 – January 22, 1701
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Date: January 22, 1701
Author: Charles Hatton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: f. 125
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Hatton thanks Sloane for the book and asks how he is to pay for it. He discusses his Lady and her governess.
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 Holte, 3rd Baronet to Hans Sloane – September 10, 1701
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Date: September 10, 1701
Author: Charles Holte, 3rd Baronet
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: f. 232
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Holte thanks Sloane for introducing him to the Royal Society. He tried to call on Sloane to thank him when he was in London, but missed him. Holte sends Sloane the case he promised.
Sir Charles Holte (c. 1649-1722), 3rd Baronet Holte, of Aston, was the son of Sir Robert Holte, 2nd Baronet and Jane Brereton (George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume I, page 105).