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Richard Middleton Massey to Hans Sloane – October 21, 1706
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Date: October 21, 1706
Author: Richard Middleton Massey
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 237-238
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The town’s apothecary is leaving because he inherited an estate. Massey is thinking of taking over the practice and hiring a journeyman. As such, he asks Sloane to speak with the Royal College of Physicians to procure a license for him.
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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Henry Vaughan to Hans Sloane – May 24, 1703
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Date: May 24, 1703
Author: Henry Vaughan
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: f. 132
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Henry Vaughan was a physician.
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John Constable to Hans Sloane – April 17, 1705
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Date: April 17, 1705
Author: John Constable
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 24-25
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Constable and Verney were given a clutch of Chameleon’s eggs by a Paduan professor. The eggs were sent with an English merchant so nothing would happen to them. They hatch like a common lizard’s eggs.
John Constable was the Grand Duke of Tuscany’s physician.
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Charles Hatton to Hans Sloane – June 16, 1703
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Date: June 16, 1703
Author: Charles Hatton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 148-149
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Hatton wants to borrow the ‘Strutted Skin of the Marack’ and ‘Sanguin’ to have them painted.
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 – August 28, 1703
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Date: August 28, 1703
Author: Charles Hatton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 176-177
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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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Name: Sir Christopher Hatton
Gender:
Age:
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Description
Hatton's brother is so ill that he may not survive. For further letters involving this case, see: Sloane MS 4039 ff. 178-179, 182, 184, 257-258.
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Diagnosis
Patient is having difficulty swallowing and throat pain, but nothing appeared amiss in the throat upon examination. Keill described the affliction as a 'most dangerous thorough thrush'.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment: Keill prescribed gurgles, borax dissolved in plantain water, and syrup of violets.
Response: The borax is the only treatment that offers any tangible relief.
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Medical problem reference
Wasting, Thrush, Throat, Pain
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Charles Hatton to Hans Sloane – August 30, 1703
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Date: August 30, 1703
Author: Charles Hatton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 178-179
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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].
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: Sir Christopher Hatton
Gender:
Age:
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Description
Hatton writes that despite his last 'melancholy' letter his brother's thrush is now quite well. For further letters involving this case, see: Sloane MS 4039 ff. 176-177, 182, 184, 257-258.
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Diagnosis
Since the thrush Hatton's brother has suffered from a great amount of phlegm, rhume, perpetual wheezing, and coughing.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment:
Response:
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Medical problem reference
Pain, Colds, Throat, Lungs, Coughs, Thrush
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Charles Hatton to Hans Sloane – September 13, 1703
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Date: September 13, 1703
Author: Charles Hatton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 182-183
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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 – September 18, 1703
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Date: September 18, 1703
Author: Charles Hatton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 184-185
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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 – November 1, 1703
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Date: November 1, 1703
Author: Charles Hatton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 204-205
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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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Victor Ferguson to Hans Sloane – March 27, 1705
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Date: March 27, 1705
Author: Victor Ferguson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: f. 16-17
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Ferguson recommends James Hudson, the bearer, and his brother Dr George’s son to Sloane.
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).