Anthony Keck was a barrister. He was the father of Robert Keck, Fellow of the Royal Society.
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(https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27keck%27%29 [accessed 13 February]).
Browne Langrish (d. 1759) was a physician and medical author. In 1734 he became an extra licentiate of the College of Physicians and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Langrish published works on general physic, stones, and smallpox
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Peregrine Hyde (Osborne), Marquess of Carmarthen 1712-1729, when he became the 3rd Duke of Leeds. He married his third wife, Juliana, in 1725.
Peregrine Hyde Osborne, 3rd Duke of Leeds was referred to as Marquess Carmarthen or Lord Carmarthen at the time.
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The Complete Peerage, vol. 7, p. 513
Brewer has sent via Mr. Richardson the figures of the plants undermentioned had they been duplicated the plants themselves had waited upon Sloane and he hopes they will be auspitable to him for their oddness & uncommonness. Mr. Richardson will inform Sloane who have compared the figures. He goes on to list 5 plants on the front of the letter and 10 on the back with their latin names and a description of where some were found. P.S. He desires, if Sloane think proper to cal Mr. Miller Mr Marlyn Mr Rand & Mr. Collessen
Sloane should have received ‘le Codex de Pharmacie’ by the last post. Geoffroy received two medals from London. Claude Joseph Geoffroy (1685-1752) was a chemist, apothecary, botanist, and member of both l’Academie des sciences and Royal Society. His brother was the clergyman and librarian to Louis XIV Etienne Francois Geoffroy (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude-Joseph_Geoffroy).
Abbé Bignon thanks Sloane for his letter and sending ‘les sept collections philosophiques du Docteur hook, les memoires hebdomadaires de M. Beaumont, le commentariolum Britannicae descriptionis’, the latest ‘Monthy-Catalogues’, and the Philosophical Transactions for the Bibliothèque du Roi. Monsieur de Chammorel will relay Bignon’s concerns to Sloane. Jean-Paul Bignon (1662-1743) was a clergyman, librarian to Louis XIV, member of the Academie francaise, and mentor of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Bignon).
Sr. Dr. Shaw communicated to me your letter in which I filed ye University qusally obliged to you for yr generous instructions to our library and Museum, for which I desire you to accept the most humble and sincere acknowledgements. I hope for ye honour of waiting on you in town next week, but in ye mean time, thought its my duty to acquaint you how sousible we are of ye much obligations you are confonning on us and with how much respects, I am particularly Sr, yr most obliged humble serv.t W. Holmes Oxon. June 4.1735
Burton recommends a patient to Sloane. William Burton was a physician.
Burton was called to see 'the Lady the Bearer', who is 'subject to frequent hysterical Convulsions' and pulses. He believes her condition came about after undertaking 'a regimen she had been recommended to for the benefit of her Eyes viz repeated phlebotomy & Catharticks continued eight months'. The treatment weakened her constitution. Burton 'attended her, and her strength is pretty well recovrd'. Her eyes are still in poor shape. Burton does not know 'Whether it be an hysterick or a Rheumatick affecting of this organ [the eye]'. The patient's vision is obscured and she is in pain.
Convulsions; pulses; eyes; hemorrhoids; weakness; rheumatism; pain.
Burton blistered her and gave her a 'Bolus's of Cons: Anth: Cinnab: Antim: Castor: Rad: Valer: Sylo: philo: Visc: querc:'
By 16 April the patient developed 'frequent itching, cutaneous Tubercles in various parts of the Body'. She was given 'Diaphoreticks were used till the sympton almost disappear'd and then an Enema'. Burton claims that 'The former seem'd necessary to obviate the Complaint of painfull Haemorrhoids'. The latter have subsided since 'the Disorder of her Eyes first seized her [...] This Cutaneous Eruption was attended with Considerable releif to the Eyes'.
Lewis Way W. a Director of the So.Sea Company having been propos’d to the Society for a Subscribing Member, I am order’d as their Rules require to desire you would be pleas’d to signify his character as to his being well affected to the Government in Church and State, of an humble peaceable and charitable Disposition. I am Honoured Sr. yr. most Obedient humble Servant Henry Newman Bartlet’s Buildings 14.May.1735 Sir Hans Sloane Bar.t
[fol. 105] Honrd Sir I gladly take this Opportunity to thank you for ye many Instances of your Favour & Kindness to me. The Disproportion there is between your station in Life & mine, renders all Returns impossible but such as are the result of a gratefull Heart & a warm Acknowledgment. The Gentleman who has the Honr to deliver this to you, has been very conversant with ye Practice of Physick upon ye Coast of Guinea, & is by much the most qualify’d of any Person I have ever met with to satisfie such Enquiries as you may think proper to make in Relation to that Country. I know Sir cannot do a more acceptable Action than by affording you an Occasion of informing yourself (if there be any thing yet remaining you are uniform’d of) in Matters regarding natural knowledge. I am now preparing a second Edition of my Treatise on the the [sic] Diseases in these Parts. It has cost me a good deal of Pains & Observation & as it will be much larger & more compleat than ye former. I hope it will the better merit your Acceptance. I have had the misfortune to loose ye first Vol. of your Natural History of Jamaica, & know not how to repair a Loss I so much lament, unless it be Sir from your self. for they write me from England that it is not to be procur’d upon any terms among ye Booksellers. your Goodness, I know, will pardon this Freedom from one who highly honours you & who is proud of nothing so much as ye Liberty of declaring Himself Sir yr. most obedient humble servt. Richd Towne Barbados Apl. 30. 1732
Richard Towne was a physician.