Posted on August 2, 2016 by -
N. N. to Hans Sloane – August ye 27th 1735
Item info
Date: August ye 27th 1735
Author: N. N.
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4054
Folio: f. 95
Original Page
Transcription
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
Posted on August 2, 2016 by -
Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – January 15, 1732
Item info
Date: January 15, 1732
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 58-59
-
Language
French
-
Library
British Library, London
-
Categories
Library, Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
-
Subjects
Books, Journals, Music, Post, Prussian Academy of Sciences, Stones
-
Date (as written)
January 15, 1732
-
Standardised date
-
Origin (as written)
Hanover
-
Others mentioned
-
Patients mentioned
Original Page
Transcription
Steigertahl hopes the package including the appendix for the first six months of the ‘Commerce literaire Nurenberg’ reached Sloane. A new volume has been published. He will send a copy as soon as possible. Steigertahl received word from Lübeck that Mr Sievers, a Member of the ‘Societé Royalle de Prusse’, has released a treatise on ‘lapidis musicalis’ (musical stones). He briefly discusses the book’s contents, but does not know whether it is in Latin or German as their librarian, Mr Förster, has not received an excerpt. Volumes ‘416 & 417’ of the Philosophical Transactions have arrived, but ‘411’ did not. Steigertahl requests that Sloane send another copy of ‘411’.
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).
Posted on August 2, 2016 by -
Samuel Brewer to Hans Sloane –
Item info
Date:
Author: Samuel Brewer
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4054
Folio: f. 17
Original Page
Transcription
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
Posted on August 2, 2016 by -
William Holmes to Hans Sloane – June 4 1735
Item info
Date: June 4 1735
Author: William Holmes
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4054
Folio: f. 51
Original Page
Transcription
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
Posted on August 2, 2016 by -
William Burton to Hans Sloane – April 12/16, 1732
Item info
Date: April 12/16, 1732
Author: William Burton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: f. 96
Original Page
Transcription
Burton recommends a patient to Sloane.
William Burton was a physician.
Patient Details
-
Patient info
Name: N/A Unnamed Lady
Gender:
Age:
-
Description
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.
-
Diagnosis
Convulsions; pulses; eyes; hemorrhoids; weakness; rheumatism; pain.
-
Treatment
Previous Treatment: Burton blistered her and gave her a 'Bolus's of Cons: Anth: Cinnab: Antim: Castor: Rad: Valer: Sylo: philo: Visc: querc:'
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: 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'.
-
More information
-
Medical problem reference
Convulsions, Eyes, Haemorrhoids, Weakness, Rheumatism, Pulse, Pain
Posted on August 2, 2016 by -
Henry Newman to Hans Sloane – 14.May.1735
Item info
Date: 14.May.1735
Author: Henry Newman
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4054
Folio: f. 41
Original Page
Transcription
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
Posted on August 2, 2016 by Emma Seeley -
Jean-Paul Bignon to Hans Sloane – June 16, 1732
Item info
Date: June 16, 1732
Author: Jean-Paul Bignon
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 131-132
Original Page
Transcription
[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).
Posted on August 2, 2016 by Emma Seeley -
L. J. Jacmin to Hans Sloane – June 18, 1732
Item info
Date: June 18, 1732
Author: L. J. Jacmin
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 135-136
-
Language
French
-
Library
British Library, London
-
Categories
Collections, Material Culture, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities, Travel
-
Subjects
Amber, Animals, Botany, Canada, Germany, Post, Rocks, Specimens
-
Date (as written)
June 18, 1732
-
Standardised date
June 18, 1732
-
Origin (as written)
Bremen [...] chez le Major de Marcheval
-
Others mentioned
Joannes Henricus de Heucher
-
Patients mentioned
Original Page
Transcription
Jacmin wrote to Mr Heucher to see whether the package reached him. Heucher was in ‘Varsovie et non a Dresden’. The mistake extended Jacmin’s stay in Berlin. Jacmin received a beaver specimen (morceau de Castor) found near the Brandenburg quay. It is just as fine as those sold in Canada. He also has a piece of cobalt, an hourglass, and amber for Sloane if he would like them. Jacmin will copy the list of the 700 characteristics of plants (les 700 caracteres de plantes) for Sloane.
L. J. Jacmin was a physician.
Posted on September 3, 2017 by Tallulah Pepperell -
Clemina Pemberton wrote letter 4526 to Sloane. No other information is known about her.
Reference:
Clemina Pemberton to Hans Sloane, 1732-07-29, Sloane MS 4052, ff. 153-154, British Library, London
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
Relationship to Sloane:
Virtual International Authority File:
