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.
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http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Steigerthal accessed 11th April 2017.
Christopher Morley (b.1645/6) studied medicine at Leiden University from 1676-1679 obtaining an MD. During this time he attended the anatomical lectures of Drelincourt and studied chemistry with Maets. In 1679 Morley published a small work on an epidemic fever prevalent in England and the Netherlands, which he dedicated to the Royal College of Physicians. He was elected honorary Fellow of the College the following year. Morley travelled to the Indies in 1683 and settled in London to practice medicine in 1684.
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J. F. Payne, “Morley, Christopher Love (b. 1645/6)”, rev. Patrick Wallis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Peter Hardisway was a student at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1719 and practised medicine in Dover.
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(http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2024 [accessed 13 February 2017]).
Bromwich learned by Mr Powell that Sloane is serving as Madam Rawlinson’s physician. He inquired about Sloane at the Grecian Coffeehouse. Sloane consulted on Rawlinson’s case before Dr Gibbons and several others were called in. One ‘Mr Brooken’ was also a patient of Bromwich’s before he retained Sloane. Bromwich states: ‘you tooke from me my Patient… I must say it is fowle practice & Not like a Gentleman’ to act in such a way. He ‘shall Compayn of it’ to the appropriate authorities.
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[fol. 272] ye. 16th. July 1731 Sir I hope you will have been able to fill up the number of the subscriptions for the Museum Florentinum which I have caused to be sent over to Mr. Pucci, & very shortly the first Volume will be published, & the second also will follow in a short time, & most of the designs of the whole work are done, so that as soon as engraven will successively appear, & I presume will prove one of the most magnificent setts of erudition that the World has yett seen. As to the Chinese Chronological Table I want to know whether you are quite rid of the trouble of it, by its having been all sold away, since that curious discovery of the darkness of the historie of that Nation, ought to have been very agreeable to all men of learning. Having gott some further accounts, & philosophical Observations upon the strange Phenomenon that happned about four months agoe at Casena, whereof I gave you the first news that I received, I have thought it might be very acceptable to you to be thoroughly informed of the matter to lay it before the society with my humble submissions to there profound speculation, that thereby might be made some improvement in the discovery of the ignicles that emanate from out bodies, & that unperceived continually float in the air, especially in these southern parts of the World, & I should be very proud to have contributed to so usefull a lucubration. I am in great want of the Philos. Transact. from No. 411. to go on in my work of giving to Italy an Essay of them down to the present year exclusive, which I have already compassed as farr as above mentioned, & was in hopes of receiving ere now the quite, butt I dont hear from the Merchant at Leghorne that any shipp has brought them, nor the books you was pleased to mention designed for me, nor the Barometers that I entreated you to send me, wherefore I renew unto you my most earnest request to enquire what is become of the said parcells, & if ever dispatched [fol. 273] I have nothing more at present to impart you wherefore I remaine with reall esteem Sir P.S. Tis very remarkable that this year the flies of all kinds have not appeared in these parts untill the beginning of this month, & even in a very little quantity, which must be owing to the past long winter that must have destroied there eggs. The annex’d letter of Marq. Scipio Master of Verona I caused to be copied from the print, because it would have been to bulky for a packet. Your most obedt. humble sert. Thomas Dereham RSS.
Sir Thomas Dereham (c. 1678-1739) was a British expatriate and Roman Catholic who lived in Italy. He had a close association with the Royal Society (https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27dereham%27%29).
Franco writes that he intended to write to Sloane yesterday, but was prevented because he was out of town. He hopes Sloane is good and well and says he will write the day before they will be going so they do not hinder him. And adds that they are proud to be at Sloane’s command at any time.
Barlow’s letter is quite faded and difficult to read. It appears to be a social letter, however “this college” and “physicians” do come up, but their context cannot be discerned. John Barlow was a physician.
[…]ked Lane [D..]: th 24 Mr [Pettiffer?] I ame dissapointed of my voyage to the straets which ame sory for [that?] I Cannott serve you In any thing ther butt if I Can serve you In any thing In the Est Indies I shall be very willing I go away a Friday nixt Sr: I [Rest?] Your Servant to Comand W.M: Hay
William Hay informs James Petiver that he is traveling to the East Indies and offers to serve him in any way he can while he is there.
Godfrey writes to Sloane about the observations he sent him and will continue to do so when they occur. He reports a person who took by mistake 30 drops of the aether (Throbonius’s) which disordered him, gave him a swimming in his head, the disposition to discharge the contents of his stomach, and was felt all over. He did not recover from it in less than 6 weeks or 2 months. Dr. Grossn has distilled the “Sal son cactis”, which grows a small acid spirit, then an “urinous” one, and then an inflammable oil. The doctor concludes it with nitrous, “Essonhall” salt from the grass and to an animal, which “acid-saltno” doubt is the cause of milks turning sour. This gentleman, as well as “Bourhaave”, will not allow “acidum dari in animalibus”, but asserts those found therein to be taken in pure aliments and that such acids are not inherent to here or one of the natural component parts thereof. Dr. Drage has proved that strong ice will corrode flesh. The bloachers have greenware from the West Indies in vain, Dr. Grossn is working there and separated a white phlogistic substance by coction from coconuts, which burns like wax candles. Sometime since Godfrey troubled Sloane last with apposition to his father, he was sent 12 guin, when 2 guin were left unpaid to his landlord which now is going to 5, and he is unable to pay him. If he does not pay him, the landlord threatens to sell his clothes and books. He got all his manuscripts and secrets from his whole life from his dear father and does not want them to fall into the wrong hands. As such, he asks Sloane to send him 10 guin which will save him and enable him to stand his ground while he is making the proofs before Kings Pr. on his remedy “Contra profluvia Sanguinis”.
Cheshire writes to Sloane as the President of the College of Physicians and the Royal Society and as a gentleman who investigates the causes and applies suitable remedies for the conquest of diseases. He writes about a pill that has his curiosity and he cannot discover the composition or a medicine to take in the same volume. He asks Sloane if he could make a trial of them or try to discover what they are made of, to be sure of no quackery. John Cheshire, MD of Leicester