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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – October 6, 1730
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Date: October 6, 1730
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: ff. 118-119
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Language
French
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, Scholarship, Social
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Subjects
Deaths, Fellowship, History, Japan, Publishing, Translations
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Date (as written)
October 6, 1730
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Hannover
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Others mentioned
Philip Henry Zollman J.H. Kaempfer Engelbert Kaempfer
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Patients mentioned
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The paper accompanying the letter was written by Dr Weidler of Wittenburg. Steigertahl thanks Sloane for ‘la belle figure de l’Aloë’ that came with the Philosophical Transactions. Schlüter sends his compliments and thanks Sloane for the list of old books. Steigertahl received a letter from Dr Kämpfer informing him of the death of Dr Scheuchzer and the absence of Zollman. There is a printer at Lemgo who printed ‘les amoenitates’ of the late Dr Kämpfer and wants to publish the ‘Histoire de Japan’. The German manuscripts need to be procured. Dr Weidler hopes to be admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Johann Georg Steigertahl (1666-1740) was the personal physician to George I of England. He was a member of the Royal Society and secured the purchase of Engelbert Kaempfer’s collection of East Asian curiosities for Sir Hans Sloane in 1723 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Steigerthal).
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Henry Morton to Hans Sloane – November 23, 1730
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Date: November 23, 1730
Author: Henry Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: ff. 133-134
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[fol. 133] Oxendon Nov’r, 23. 1730 S’r I receiv’d yours but not till lately being absent from home. So I hope you will excuse my not answering it sooner. I am very well satisfy’d with what you offer for ye Collection and desire you to accept of ye order that I have given to Walter Corbett of Harborough Apothecary to receive ye Money of you himself or by his friend. I think myself much obliged to yo S’r for ye Respect you shew to my Father, And in order to let you know what additions he intended to his History, have sent you a coppy of some Memorandums which he left with me at his death with relation to them, which I think will give you better information then I can any otherways. They are as follows. As to my Manuscripts relation to natural history & antiquities, ye former as at present are of no great use, ye latter, particularly yt in quarto, entitled ye ancient flute of northamptonshire &c. I place a great value upon as being ye fruit of much labour, And so far approved by ye late Bishop of Peterborough, yt he has both personally & by Letter desired me to publish it. Further I do think it will be really serviceable & gratefull to ye world, but then yt shoud be at ye End of a second edition of my history. For which purpose it is only necessary yt that begining of ye third part which is to be found in yt Manuscript be wholly omitted, for I now find it is impossible to publish yt third part with sufficient exactness: Nor indeed was it published, woud it be of yt use as I at first thought. This being done it is requisite ye title shoud be changed; And I think it will fitly bear ye Title, Remarks upon yt part of doomsday book relating to Northamptonshire, with an Explication of ye Names of ye places here in Mention’d. Then to render a second edition of my natural History yet more compleat, I desire ye exemplar of it now by me wherein I have written Emendations & improvements of yt work may be imparted to my Booksellers, Wilkins & Knaplock, that they may reprint ye same from thence. Both ye History here mention’d and ye Manuscripts I have by me And with your permission will send them to you. And desire, if you please to give your self ye trouble, yt you woud peruse ’em, & make what alterations and amendments you think propper in order for yr being printed according to my Fathers desire. If you please S’r to let me know your mind, as to ys matter and I will act accordingly. I am S’r your most obliged and most obedient humble servant H: Morton
Henry Morton was the son of Reverend J. Morton of Great Oxendon.
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Henry Elking to Hans Sloane – August 6, 1726
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Date: August 6, 1726
Author: Henry Elking
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048
Folio: ff. 183-184
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Elking sends ‘the head of a Wallross’ preserved in ‘Salt Pickle’. He describes the specimen and how he got it to Sloane. A ship from Greenland is supposed to deliver an ‘uncommon’ specimen soon.
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John Burnet to Hans Sloane – January 5, 1725/26
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Date: January 5, 1725/26
Author: John Burnet
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048
Folio: ff. 120-121
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Burnet has not heard anything regarding his friend’s quadrant from Edmond Halley. He wonders whether he should stop trying to get it back. Burnet asks Sloane to help him stay ‘in the good graces of Sr John Eyles and Mr Rudge’. He is having difficulty with his enemies and needs Sloane’s support. He thanks Sloane for his last letter and will try ‘to gett what Collection I can to go by the Royall George’ to London.
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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Geo: Vertue to Scheuhzer – July [of?] 1728
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Date: July [of?] 1728
Author: Geo: Vertue
Recipient: Scheuhzer
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: f. 44-45
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Dr. [Scheuhzer?]
[I?] may be so kind to Speak to Sr. Hans Sloane for the [bearet?], who is in a miserable state of health & has been very long afflicted with illness, & cannot find any remedy he humbly begs the advice of Sr. Hans.
Pray give my humble Respects to Sr. Hans & assure him I shall esteem this as a favour done
to Sr. yr. very much Obliged Servant to Command Geo: Vertue
Monday Evening July [of?]: 1728
It appears that Vertue refers to the patient as, ‘the bearet’ however; the original text is difficult to read so this cannot be confirmed.
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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.
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Harry
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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More information
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Medical problem reference
Skin ailments, Fevers, Stomach, Stomach
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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
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
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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.
Patient Details
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Patient info
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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More information
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Medical problem reference
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: 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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More information
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Medical problem reference
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
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