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Baba Sultanum to Hans Sloane – February 23, 1725
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Date: February 23, 1725
Author: Baba Sultanum
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 321-322
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Transcription
Sultanum claims to have discovered a wonderful medicine. Sloane can meet him at the Grecian Coffeehouse to discuss the remedy.
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John Burnet to Hans Sloane – February 24, 1725
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Date: February 24, 1725
Author: John Burnet
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 323-324
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Burnet thanks Sloane for his favours. The Court of Directors has not been cooperating with Burnet during his illness. They will not pay for an apothecary or physician to attend to him. He thinks this is the least the Court of Directors should do, though he has not brought it up with them for he ‘Would not be thought troublesome’. Burnet requests that Edmond Halley return his friend’s scientific instrument. Seventeen galleons have arrived ‘& have brought over a Vice King for Peru, & other Ministers for Panama’.
John Burnet worked for the South Sea Company in the West Indies and later served as the Physician to King Philip V of Spain.
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William Coventry, 5th Earl of Coventry to Hans Sloane – February 24, 1725
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Date: February 24, 1725
Author: William Coventry, 5th Earl of Coventry
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 325-326
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William Coventry (1688-1750/51), 5th Earl of Coventry, was MP for Bridport between 1708 and 1719. He was invested into the Privy Council in 1719/20 and served as Custos Rotulorum of Worcestershire from 1720 to 1751 (G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 473).
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John Burnet to Hans Sloane – April 7, 1725
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Date: April 7, 1725
Author: John Burnet
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 333-334
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Curiosity Reports, Government, Material Culture, Medical, Scientific, Trade or Commodities, Travel
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Subjects
Curiosities, Inoculation, Netherlands, Scientific Instruments, Smallpox, Spain, War
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Date (as written)
April 7, 1725
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Carthagen
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Others mentioned
Edmond Halley Sir John Eyles James Pym
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Patients mentioned
Unnamed
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Transcription
James Pym is traveling to England and will relay news from the New World. Dr Halley has not returned Burnet’s friend’s quadrant. Burnet sends an account of a ‘Negro boy’ who had Mal de St Lazaro. He wonders whether ‘inoculateing the small pox on the Lazarens would not prove a Cure?’ Burnet was going to send curiosities with Pym, but could not get them packed up in time. The Spanish have sunk several Dutch ships.
John Burnet worked for the South Sea Company in the West Indies and later served as the Physician to King Philip V of Spain.
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John Neale to Hans Sloane – January 4, 1723/24
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Date: January 4, 1723/24
Author: John Neale
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 118-119
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Neale writes of a ‘Scothman who practiceth Physick and Surgery’ called Mr Short (Thomas Short). Neale is coming to London and can give Sloane further details on the medical case when he arrives.
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William Plowden to Hans Sloane – October 21, 1723
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Date: October 21, 1723
Author: William Plowden
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 79-80
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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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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 Anne
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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More information
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Medical problem reference
Skin ailments, Fevers, Stomach, Stomach
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Étienne François Geoffroy to Hans Sloane – May 15, 1702
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Date: May 15, 1702
Author: Étienne François Geoffroy
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 344-345
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Language
French
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Library, Scholarship, Social, Trade or Commodities, Travel
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Subjects
Books, Catalogues, Curiosities, Danube, Gifts, History, Tea, War
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Date (as written)
May 15, 1702
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
A Paris
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Others mentioned
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort William Courten alias Charleton Abbe Jean Paul Bignon Philippe de la Hire Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli
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Patients mentioned
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Geoffroy hopes Sloane will forward a catalogue of the curiosities in Mr Charleton’s cabinet. He passes on thanks from Abbe Bignon for Sloane’s letter and admires the regard Sloane showed toward Tournefort, who was forced to return to Paris as a result of the war. He thanks Sloane for the tea and sassafras and notes that the history of the Danube ‘Mr Le Comte Marsigli’ is writing will cover all of the river’s outlying territories. Goeffroy informs Sloane of some Latin texts and the doings of several of their acquaintances.
Etienne Francois Geoffroy (1672-1731) was an apothecary and physician who studied at Montpellier, like Sloane, and worked at the Jardin du Roi and College Royal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etienne_Francois_Geoffroy).
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Charles Bennet, Earl of Tankerville to Hans Sloane – n.d.
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Date: n.d.
Author: Charles Bennet, Earl of Tankerville
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 191
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Fol. 191
[father’s sudden change, please come]
[P.S.] My Lord is lethargick and a high fever upon him. Lord and Lady Lymington are here with me and our concerns are inexpressible.
This letter is written by either Charles Bennet, 1st Earl of Tankerville (1674-1722), Charles Bennet, 2nd Earl of Tankerville (1697-1753), or Charles Bennet, 3rd Earl of Tankerville (1716-1767) depending on the date. The same goes for the patient.
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C. Palmer to Hans Sloane – June 18, 1720
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Date: June 18, 1720
Author: C. Palmer
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 216
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Fol. 216
By your advice I hope to have good health my stomacks good and sleep well but frequently hath a dizziness takes me across my forehead; but it soone goes off; I use the perpetual blister which hath its effect but my issues difficult to keep in order; they be very apt to dry; have blooded three times since I left London; the blood not good but better than it was; though callous; I drank for a week spaw water it not agreed with me being apt to effect my head; my body is in good temper and I live temperate and regular in all accounts. I shall be obliged to you if you will advice [sic] how to correct [] blood it is my ailment; every morning I drink [as]ses milk: my wife desires your advice she complains of pain in her head and if she [] short of breath and hath long had a greate heate in her water and sweld within her body: she is told Bristoll waters would doe her service but will waite your direction if you think any waters proper for either of us be pleased to let me know…
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A C. Palmer
Gender:
Age:
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Description
The patient has been suffering from dizziness; his sleep was undisturbed as was his digestion. He described his body as being 'in good temper', and that he 'lived temperate and regular in all accounts'. The patient believed that the condition of his blood was the source of his ailment.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: The patient had recently been blooded three times. He also drank spaw waters, but discontinued the practice after a week because they adversely affected his head.
Ongoing Treatment: The patient took assess milk every morning.
Response:
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Head, Urinary, Shortness of breath, Dizziness, Blood