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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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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
Item info
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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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 Burnet to Hans Sloane – July 17, 1724
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Date: July 17, 1724
Author: John Burnet
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 198-199
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Burnet is curious as to why he has not received word from Sloane. Edmond Halley has not responded to a letter from Burnet’s friend. He requests that Sloane return the quadrant by the Royal George with ‘Mess’rs Rigby & Pratter at Jamaica’. Burnet wants to send curiosities to Sloane. He asks for new books and pamphlets.
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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Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet to Hans Sloane – May 2, 1724
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Date: May 2, 1724
Author: Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 172-173
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Tufton recommends the bearer, a surgeon from Ashford, to Sloane. The man served Tufton for 20 years, but has been ill and fallen on hard times. Tufton asks Sloane to help him procure a place at Charter House and suggests Lord Pembroke might be able to help. He was worried when he heard that Sloane was sick.
Thomas Tufton (1644-1729), 6th Earl of Thanet, was a nobleman and politician. He served as Captain of the Troop of Horse, Member of Parliament for Appelby from 1668 to 1679, and was eventually invested as a Privy Councillor in 1702. He was Lord-Lieutenant of Cumberland from 1712 to 1714 (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 297).
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C. Palmer to Hans Sloane – June 18, 1720
Item info
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: Mrs. Palmer
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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
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Charles Hatton to Hans Sloane – September 20, 1703
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Date: September 20, 1703
Author: Charles Hatton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 188-189
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Hatton was supposed to travel to London with his nephew, but a delay forced them to stay home. He thanks Sloane for all of his help regarding his brother’s illness. Christopher Hatton is doing better, though he was purged too often.
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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Richard Patrickson to Hans Sloane – Aug-26
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Date: Aug-26
Author: Richard Patrickson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 222
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Fol. 222
I am extreamly sorry that I could not come last night according to my promiss and hope ye will pardon me; I desire ye will send yr man in ye morning with a Bottle of ye same water I had first from you ye… is consum’d.
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John Povey to Hans Sloane – August 12, 1711
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Date: August 12, 1711
Author: John Povey
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 260
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