Posted on August 2, 2016 by Emma Seeley -
Family Doctor to Hans Sloane – June ye 12th 1735
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Date: June ye 12th 1735
Author: Family Doctor
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4054
Folio: f. 55
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Newmarket June ye 12th 1735
My Lord Duke of Somerset was not free from his cold when he left London, which was on the 23rd of May last, near three weeks ago, & since his grace has been here it has rather increased. This grace when he was in London & still continues coughing. most times Spitts a good deal of Flegm. At his first Coming here it was more Troublesome at night than Day, but, since his grace has taken asses milk which he has done every morning Early for 13 Days Past, the Cough has been more Violent in the morning from the Time of his Grace’s Rising. His Grace takes Portugal Snuff which seems to promote a good Evacuation for he finds ^still his Head Stuffed. His Grace has taken for about ten Days & does continue to take a spoonful from time to time of a mixture of Syrup, Syrup of Lemons but has not yet received much Benefit by it. These last three days His Grace finds the Coughing to Cause a little soreness within, occasional by the frequent Coughing His Grace’s Deafness also continues. it is not better but rather worse notwithstanding he does Continue two or three Drops of oyl of Vipers dropped on wool & then he puts it into both Ears all the Day. when He goes to Bed he takes it out & lyes all night without any thing in his Ears, untill He rises next morning.
This is the present State of my Lord Duke’s Health. His Grace desires your opinion what he ought to do to get Rid of he Cold & recover his hearing for it does very much dispirit his Grace.
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Jean-Paul Bignon to Hans Sloane – June 16, 1732
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Date: June 16, 1732
Author: Jean-Paul Bignon
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 131-132
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[fol. 131] A Paris le 16. Juin. 1732 Pour repondre, Monsieur, à la lettre que vous m’avés fait l’honneur de m’écrire le 21 Avril dernier V.S. j’ay été obligé d’attendre que les livres que vous aviés la bonté de m’y annoncer, me fussent parvenus. je ne les ay reçus que depuis quelques jours par les soins de M. Chammorel, je ne puis à cet égard que vous repeter ce que j’ay deja eu l’honneur de vous temoigner tant de fois, que je vous sensible au dela de toute expression à vos bontés et à votre politesse. je suis seulement faché qu’il ne se present ici aucune occasion de vous donner des marques plus reelles de ma reconnoissance, et que de tous les livres qui s’impriment icy, je ne puisse scavoir de vous ceux qui pourraient étre le plus de vôtre goût. daignés, je vous supplie, vous expliquer la dessus, et soyés persuadé que rien ne me fera plus de plaisir que de vous les procurer. j’attendrai sans impatience les Memoires de M. de Beaumont, mais je n’ay pas eu encore le tems de verifier s’il ne nous manque rien dans la suite des Monthly Chronicle ce que je scay c’est qu’il s’est trouvé une imperfection considerable dans les Philosophical Transactions janv. feb. March. 1711 où il manque une demifeuille entiere scavoir les pages 219, 220, M. Le Chevalier Hans Sloane a Londres [fol. 132] 221 et 222. si vous aviés la bonté de la faire chercher chez le Libraire qui a vendu notre Exemplaire, je vous serai obligé de me l’envoyer par la poste. Je suis avec une estime et une reconnoissance qui ne finera jamais, Monsieur, Votre tres humble et tres obeissant serviteur L’abbé Bignon
Abbé Bignon thanks Sloane for writing him. He is waiting for the books, journals, and Philosophical Transactions Sloane sent to arrive. Bignon discusses the purchases made for the library.
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).
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N. N. to Hans Sloane – August ye 27th 1735
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Date: August ye 27th 1735
Author: N. N.
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4054
Folio: f. 95
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Sr. Be pleased Sr not to reveal ye contents of these Lines.
As Physicians are ye only proper Gentlemen on whose experienc’d judgement indispos’d Per-sons can with any degree of human security depend for relief, & who therefore in Reason & Duty, human & divine, they ought to apply to: I venture to conclude it cannot be improper to make an offer of discovering to you ye real ingerdients, quantitys & manner of composing Mr. Ward’s Pill, Drop & Liquid he gives up ye nose yr work such wonders, but for want of sufficient judgement in ye application &c are say’d to prove fatal to several. As Sr. you are a Gentleman perticularly regarded as eminently Skill’d & long experienced in ye art of Phisick, witness yr being consulted by infinit numbers you wth success continually treat. Moreover Sr. as you are constituated president of yr Learned Meded & honorable Body wch therefore you must doubtless be thought a su-perlatively deserving member on; I think it every way proper to single out yr. so worthy self in order to offer ye Discovery of ye mention’d Areanas to, yr. you alone Sr. who seem above all others, by the in choice deserving ye Credit of finding out secrets yr (ripped off) Property of do Skilfull a Physician (ripped off) to be on trial. It ye Discovery I here offer to make be Sr. by you, on terms, accep-ted of I will oblige myself by oath never to own directly nor indirectly to any Creature living yt. I ever did any such thing, so in case you judge proper to discourse me about this affair, be pleas’d to p-point yr own time where most convenient yt. we may not be over heard & I will not fail to wait on you in order to give you all ye Satisfaction you can wish for from
Sr.
yr most obedient & very humble servant
N.N.
P.S.
The favour of a Line in answer to these you may please Sr. to honour me with by ye Bearer hereof. no soul Sr. besides your self is made privi to ye offer I make you so let it go no further pray, if not Relish’d by you.
August ye 27th 1735
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Phillip Cotton to Plukenett – Augst. 14.
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Date: Augst. 14.
Author: Phillip Cotton
Recipient: Plukenett
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: f. 301
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Sr
Your last to me, found me in the field a trying some prob=
=lemes of Jaquetts practicall Geometrie wch I quickly became
master ofe; after the reading of yours for nothing surely more
enlivens the spirritts, or raiseth a greater promtitude & industry
then prayses from you, who all men praise. tho I must
interpret those you have bin pleased with soe much elo=
quencie to bestow in your letter to be [n?]either a specimen of
what you could say; had you a better subject; then yt any
there in, is in anywise to be attributed to my selfe. I have
now made often experiment of Mr Marks’s Instruments;
and as far as I can heither to find the gradations there on
are pretty exact but the Theodolite I think is not altoga=
=ther according to directions, for the box there of (as far as
I can find) is not with a screw to take downe the nedle
att pleasure and besides is so badly cemented to ye plate
that betweene that, and itt, is left open severall wide
chinks wch makes itt almost unserviceable in windy
weather; because the nedle desturb’d with ye wind, wch
comes through them: will not settle wch is a very trouble- =some
fault. I think I could help itt with soft wax but
that is not soe well, as if itt was againe under the
[sau?] ther ere hands. and uppon ye brasse Index of the
plane table there wants lines of numbers, sines, and
Tangents, wch are of great use for the speedy solution
of triangles without tables of sines [&c.?] or pen and Inke
if marks could still putt them on, or would exchange
this Index for another so improved; I would willingly
be att the charge tho unwilling to putt you to any
trouble herein, but if when your occasions leads you yt
way you can without any; examine Marks herein
you will more and more oblidge me, and tho I mae
confesse that I have received more favours allready from
you then I feare I have [ablilitie?] to [wharne?] yett whatso=
ever lyes in my poore power shall never be wanting
to show you how much I really am sr your most
truly faithfull Servant
Phillip Cotton.
Hatley St George
Augst. 14.
Phillip Cotton writes to Dr. Plukenett to inform him that he was recently “in the field a trying some prob= =lemes of Jaquetts practicall Geometrie wch [he] quickly became master ofe[.]” Cotton goes on to discuss a Theodolite, which he had difficulty using.
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Sauveur-François Morand to Hans Sloane – July 10, 1732
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Date: July 10, 1732
Author: Sauveur-François Morand
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: f. 146
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Morand sends the figure of a stone. He requests that Sloane send the Royal Society’s list and newly printed works.
Sauveur-Francois Morand (1697-1773) was a French surgeon and son of John Morand, surgeon at the Hotel des Invalides. Morand was admitted as a surgeon at the Hotel des Invalides in 1724 at the age of 15. He became a Fellow of the Academie des sciences in 1722, Chief Surgeon of the Hospital of Charity in 1730, and Chief Surgeon of the French Guards in 1739. Morand published several texts on anatomy and surgery (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauveur-Francois_Morand).
Posted on January 28, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Anthony Grey, Earl of Harold b. 1695/6, d. 1723.
Reference:
Burke’s Peerage, vol. 1, p. 1065
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
Relationship to Sloane:
Virtual International Authority File:
Posted on August 2, 2016 by Emma Seeley -
Clemina Pemberton to Hans Sloane – July 29, 1732
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Date: July 29, 1732
Author: Clemina Pemberton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 153-154
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[fol. 153] Sr Mr Perronet told me yr Honr was very busy the morning, he carryd those curious manuscripts to your House, and Indeed, I beleive soe too: or otherways the five guineas, would never been the ocasion to Return such books back: which I beleive when yr Honr is pleas’d to take more notices off will appear to be worth 50 guineas instead of 5: however I have desir’d Mr Perronet, to carry them once more with another ancient vollume perhaps worthy of notice which shall be at yr Honrs service with the manuscripts for the aforesaid sum I am in the mean time Sr ye Honrs most obedient humble servant Clemina: Pemberton saturday July ye 29th 1732 P:S: I have desird Mr Perronet to leave them for two or three days on which time ye Honrs leasure may permitt to look into those valuable manuscripts
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L. J. Jacmin to Hans Sloane – September 16, 1732
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Date: September 16, 1732
Author: L. J. Jacmin
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 182-183
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Language
French
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Royal Society, Scholarship, Scientific
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Subjects
Academie des sciences, Anatomy, Autopsies, Botany, Manuscripts, Memoires de l'Academie, Opthalmology
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Date (as written)
September 16, 1732
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Standardised date
September 16, 1732
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Origin (as written)
à Hannover
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Others mentioned
Sebastien Vaillant John Thomas Woolhouse Jacob Benignus Winslow Mr Ludewig
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Patients mentioned
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Jacmin’s botanical manuscript was written by hand. He admits that it is full of mistakes. Mr Vaillant has informed him of three new classes, which have been presented to l’Académie des sciences and printed in the Mémoires de l’académie. Jacmin discusses his plans for the text as well as botanical and anatomical scholarship, including the work of the ‘celebre Anatomiste Mr. Winslow à Paris’. Jacmin requests that Sloane and the Royal Society condescend to his level and accept his botanical manuscript. He can be reached at Mr Ludewig’s residence ‘à la Steinthor’.
L. J. Jacmin was a physician who performed an autopsy on a sexagenarian with cataracts. He removed the eye from the cadaver’s socket and cleansed it in water to satisfy his curiosity. The man took ‘la friction mercurielle’ three times during his youth. There was a crystalline substance thereon, which he believes is a ‘continuation de la Retine’. He suspects the condition has something to do with ‘l’humeur vitrée’. He compared his observations to those of the ‘ancien Maitre Mr. de Woolhouse et le Professeur Allemand Heister’, which were consistent with their descriptions of cataracts.
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Browne Langrish to Hans Sloane – September 17, 1732
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Date: September 17, 1732
Author: Browne Langrish
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 184-185
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[fol. 184] Honour’d Sir, I am unwilling to give you the Trouble of sending my Manuscripts any where, & there fore have desired Mr Bettesworth, a Bookseller in Pater noster Row, to send his servant to you for it. I will take Case to add Mr Cowper’s Experiment with Those I have lately made on the Aorta, & I flatter my self, when I have carefully revised & corrected my work, & added what I have farther to say on the Nature of Attraction & Repulsion, my Theory of muscular Motion will be illustrated so as to make it appear consistent with the known Laws of Nature, & the animal Oeconomy. I hope, Sir, when Dr Croon’s Lecture is fixt, you will be so kind as to let me know whether I can read it or not. I am, Sir, yr most Obedient & most humble servant Browne Langrish Petersfield Septr ye 17th 1732
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Charles Erskine to Hans Sloane – September 28, 1732
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Date: September 28, 1732
Author: Charles Erskine
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: f. 191
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[fol. 191] Sir The many favours done by you formerly to the Society in Scotland for propagating Christian Knowledge, and this late instance in your being very instrumental with the Right Honourable The Countess of Harrold, to obtain for us £300. Out of the first Distribution of Earl Thanets Charity, Binds us by the strongest ties of Honour and Gratitude to acknowledge, as we do, by this, in the most thankful manner; the Charitable Inclination you have always showed towards the promoting of the good work with which we are intrusted. We shall always make it our business to Employ what is thus bestow’d, to the, best advantage that the great end we have in our view, may be, attaind. You may be assurd, we shall never be wanting to shew our Gratitude, as Opportunity offers, for the favours you have done us. This in name and by Appointment of the Societys Committee Is from Sir Your most humble & most Obedient servant Char. Erskine P. Edinburgh 28th Septemr 1732 Sir Hans Sloan
Charles Erskine was President of the Scotch Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge.
