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James Jurin to Hans Sloane – July 21 1723
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Date: July 21 1723
Author: James Jurin
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 18-19
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Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: Mrs. Sloane
Gender: Female
Age:
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Description
Mrs Sloane had a miscarriage 'which frighted her very much, & threw her into a great Hysterick disorder'.
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Diagnosis
Jurin thinks the fetus 'loosen'd some days before it came away' as a result of a long walk Mrs Sloane went on. Jurin adds: 'I hope for ye future she will be careful to follow your advice of using little Exercise'.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment: 'She will give ye Waters another Trial' and Sloane's advice would be followed.
Response:
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Medical problem reference
Hysteria, Miscarriage, Pregnancy
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James Salter to Hans Sloane – April 10, 1723
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Date: April 10, 1723
Author: James Salter
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: f. 342
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Salter sends what came to him by the post this morning.
James Salter was the owner of Salter’s Coffee House and at one time was a servant of Sir Hans Sloane. He accompanied the latter on his travels. His establishment was more commonly known as Don Saltero’s Coffee House and it was famous for its museum of curiosities from around the world (W. W. Wroth, Salter, James (d. c.1728), rev. P. E. Kell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24569, accessed 19 July 2013]).
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Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane – January 30, 1723
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Date: January 30, 1723
Author: Richard Richardson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 328-329
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Library, Medical, Scholarship, Scientific
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Subjects
Birds, Books, Geology, Inoculations, Ornithology, Smallpox, Specimens
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Date (as written)
January 30, 1723
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
North Bierley
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Others mentioned
Liebknecht
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Patients mentioned
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Richardson received the books Sloane lent to him. He discusses Liebknecht’s observations ‘relating to the petrifaction of the yellow sand’ and the process of its formation. The account reminded him of when some laborers were enlarging his fish pound and came upon a ‘rusty heavy sand (the weight of which they very much compained of)’. He discusses the sand in detail. Richardson writes of the ‘Crosbeake’, a bird he characterizes as ‘very mischeivouse to apples’. He saw a ‘nest of them […] in the parish of Hally-fax the young ones were taken before they were wel featherd 2 dyed in a few days’. His attention turns to the ‘House Sparrow’, which he thinks have been neglected by naturalists. He will send one if possible. He is glad to hear Sloane’s grandson recovered from smallpox. Inoculations have not been taking place in North Bierely, much to Richardson’s consternation.
Richardson was a physician and botanist who traveled widely in England, Wales, and Scotland in search of rare specimens. He corresponded and exchanged plants with many well-known botanists and naturalists (W. P. Courtney, Richardson, Richard (16631741), rev. Peter Davis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23576, accessed 31 May 2011]).
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William Sherard to Hans Sloane – April 11, 1720
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Date: April 11, 1720
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 321-322
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Dr Lursenius is to wait on Sloane at the Grecian Coffeehouse. He would like to view Sloane’s cabinet. Sherard has ‘tookd out the specimen’ Signor Micheli requested as well as ‘a sheet of Mr Petivers Concordia Graminum’. Petiver is not going to ‘publish his 50 Nova Genera till he is satisfied about the English plants of those tribes’.
Sherard was a botanist and cataloguer. He worked for the Turkish Company at Smyrna where he collected botanical specimens and antiques (D. E. Allen, Sherard, William (16591728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25355, accessed 24 June 2011]).
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William Sherard to Hans Sloane – February 7, 1723/24
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Date: February 7, 1723/24
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 126-127
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[fol. 126]
Feb.7.1723/4
Honered Sr.
By ye Bearer I send yr Box from Mr Catesby, I hope tis in much better condition then ye last ye reid from him it was opened by ye Custome house officers but I believe nothing taken out.
I have a large Gourd wth seeds for Mr. Rand, wch please to give him notice of it if you see him today, if not I’le write to him by penny post tomorrow morning having severall for rein letters to dispete it to might by ye Holland post. I am
Sr yr most humble servt
W.Sherard
Sherard was a botanist and cataloguer. He worked for the Turkish Company at Smyrna where he collected botanical specimens and antiques (D. E. Allen, Sherard, William (16591728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25355, accessed 24 June 2011]).
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William Sherard to Hans Sloane – August 20, 1720
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Date: August 20, 1720
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: f. 5
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Sherard received a package of books from Breyne, destined for Sloane.
Sherard was a botanist and cataloguer. He worked for the Turkish Company at Smyrna where he collected botanical specimens and antiques (D. E. Allen, Sherard, William (16591728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25355, accessed 24 June 2011]).
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John Mortimer to Hans Sloane – November 10, 1722
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Date: November 10, 1722
Author: John Mortimer
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: f. 308
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Mortimer asks for a recommendation for his son, who has been studying at Leiden and is going to Paris to further his medical education.
John Mortimer (1656?-1736) was an agricultural writer. Born in London, he received a commercial education and became a successful merchant. In 1693 he retired to practice his ideas on agricultural improvement. He published ‘The Whole Art of Husbandry, in the way of Managing and Improving Land’ in 1707 which was popular and influential. He dedicated this work to the Royal Society, of which he had been a Fellow since 1705. (Thomas Seccombe, Mortimer, John (1656?1736), rev. Anita McConnell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19348, accessed 18 July 2013]).
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Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane – September 5, 1720
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Date: September 5, 1720
Author: Richard Richardson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 13-14
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Richardson thanks Sloane for his favours. He will be sure to inform him of any curiosities that come his way. He laments the fact that the Royal Society’s members are concerned with mathematics over all other pursuits.
Richardson was a physician and botanist who traveled widely in England, Wales, and Scotland in search of rare specimens. He corresponded and exchanged plants with many well-known botanists and naturalists (W. P. Courtney, Richardson, Richard (16631741), rev. Peter Davis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23576, accessed 31 May 2011]).
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Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane – August 18, 1722
Item info
Date: August 18, 1722
Author: Richard Richardson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 284-285
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Scholarship, Scientific, Travel
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Subjects
Birds, Botany, Eggs, Inscriptions, Ornithology, Plants, Seals, Specimens, Wales
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Date (as written)
August 18, 1722
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
North Bierley
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Others mentioned
Edward Lhwyd John Houldsworth Dr Robinson
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Patients mentioned
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[fol. 285]
Hon’d Sr
I have not been so successful in adding to the collection of Birds Eggs I sent you the last season as I hoped for, but what I met with that you had not from hence the following List wil acquaint you.
1. The Buzzard
2. The brown or Joy Owl
3. The white church Owl
4. The Sparrow Hawke
5. The Stonegall
6. The Raven
7. The Rooke
8. The Water Owsel
9. The Wood Larke
10. The waterwagtail with the nest
11. The yellow waterwagtail
12. The House Martin
13. The Colemouse
14. The longtailed Titnouse with its nest which is a very remarkable one
Two of each of these eggs are put in a litle Box & sent on Wednesday last by John Houldsworth a Bradford Carrier. In a larger Box I sent a pott of more game which I should be glad to hear came to you safe & in good order, you wil find in the large Box a few dryed plants.
1 is a succulent Creeping plant which I met with in June last in most in most [sic] of the lakes of Snowden; I cannot find that it is taken notice of by any one neither do I know to what class to refer it having obtained neither flower nor seed of it I brought Roots of it hither which [?] in a fish pond very wel perhaps the next year I may be able to give you a better account of it Mr Lhwyd in a letter to Dr Robinson from Swansey Glamorganshire Sept. 14 1696 printed in the philosoph: transact: n. 334 says & in one of the Lakes I gatherd a small plant which I suspect to be un described, which perhaps may be the same.
2 Laxifraga antuanalis angushifolia floribus lutais pimetatis Breyn: Centis [?] this I gathered upon Knutsford More in Cheshire where it is very pletyfull. I brought from thence severall roots of it which grow in my garden of which you have a specimen in full flower
3 Crista galli montana angustifolia crpode. [?] this is a comon weed in most of the corn fields for severall miles about Wetherby in the west Riding of Yorkeshire
4 Bitalin [?]
5 Arri aromatic Joh [?] from Holford Cheshire where it grows in plenty in a large moat Dr Kingston of Knutsford a Curiouse Botanist assured me that he had met with it in severall ponds & [?] pitts in that county. if you desire living roots of any plants either from hence or from Wales I hope I can in a great measure furnish you.
I have put up in the same Box an Impression of an old seal lathy: [?] washt out of a Bankside nigh Hallyfax; though the Inscription be very legible yet I cannot understand the use of it unles it has been the Sea of some Fraternity
That you may enjoy long health & happynesse is the hearty wish of
your obliged servant
Ric: Richardson
North Bierley
Aug. 18.1722
Richardson was a physician and botanist who traveled widely in England, Wales, and Scotland in search of rare specimens. He corresponded and exchanged plants with many well-known botanists and naturalists (W. P. Courtney, Richardson, Richard (16631741), rev. Peter Davis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23576, accessed 31 May 2011]).
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Nathaniel Johnston to Hans Sloane – January 30, 1699
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Date: January 30, 1699
Author: Nathaniel Johnston
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 195-196
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Johnston sends the papers he promised Sloane, an account of his Lord’s sickness, and natural rarities which ‘are copies from my Lords Booke that he writ him self as his Repository.’ He writes that many of them are common things and others are of no use. He leaves it up to Sloane’s judgement to mark anything he deems publishable and asks him to assign the right names where his Lord and his Lord’s amanuensis are mistaken. He writes: ‘there is still wanting a Collection of the Rare pictures my Lord has with an Account by what Masters they were made’ in English. He wonders whether it is worth printing. Johnston directs Sloane’s response to the house of the Countess Dowager at Millbank in Westminster.
Johnston was a physician, antiquarian, and political theorist celebrated for his book ‘The Excellency of Monarchical Government’ (1686) (Mark Goldie, Johnston, Nathaniel (bap. 1629?, d. 1705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14946, accessed 21 June 2013]).