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William Sherard to Hans Sloane – January 6, 1701
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Date: January 6, 1701
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 119-120
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Sherard discusses botany, exchanging books, and tree branch specimens. He wants Mr Wasp to do some collating for him.
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 – September 13, 1699
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Date: September 13, 1699
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 328-329
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Sherard thanks Sloane for his favours. He will be sending books from Paris, probably through Holland to avoid the customs duties on French goods. Dr Chirac has provided Sherard with books for Sloane. He discusses his travel plans.
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 Morton to Hans Sloane – August 29, 1706
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Date: August 29, 1706
Author: John Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 210-211
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John Morton was a naturalist who was in correspondence with Sloane from roughly 1703 to 1716. Morton contributed nearly one thousand specimens (fossils, shells, bones, teeth, minerals, rocks, man-made artifacts, etc.) to Sloane’s collection (Yolanda Foote, Morton, John (16711726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19364, accessed 2 July 2013]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Unnamed
Gender:
Age:A girl.
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Description
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Diagnosis
Greensickness; body swollen in reaction to vomiting.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Was prescribed vomits.
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: Morton believes the vomiting was caused by the quality, not the quantity, of the purgative. The swelling was caused by the great mass of cheese and phlegm in the girl's system keeping the vomit from coming up as it should have.
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Swelling, Greensickness, Birth Defect, Anus Imperforate
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Ralph Thoresby to Hans Sloane – December 6, 1701
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Date: December 6, 1701
Author: Ralph Thoresby
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 272-273
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Library, Scientific
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Subjects
Archimedes' screw, Catalogues, Engineering, Excavation, Jetties, Plants, Specimens
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Date (as written)
December 6, 1701
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Leeds
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Others mentioned
John Rastrick Benjamin Walford
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Patients mentioned
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John Rastrick, a minister, is the man Sloane was asking about. Thoresby quotes Rastrick’s letter in full, which concerns the jetties of ‘the River Welland’. Many things were dredged from the bottom, including many plants. Rastrick’s letter states: ‘the Archimedean screw, or screw-like Trunk or cylinder by wch ye workmen cleard themselves of water, was very pretty.’ Thoresby asks Sloane to lend him plant specimens to which he can compare his collection.
Thoresby was an antiquary and topographer. He expanded his fathers Musaeum Thoresbyanum impressively, and his collection brought him into discussion with many important political and scholarly figures (P. E. Kell, Thoresby, Ralph (16581725), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27334, accessed 27 June 2013]).
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William Sherard to Hans Sloane – February 3, 1701/02
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Date: February 3, 1701/02
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 298-299
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Medical, Scholarship, Scientific, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Botany, Plants, Publishing, Specimens, Subscriptions
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Date (as written)
February 3, 1701/02
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Badmington
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Others mentioned
Paolo Silvio Boccone John Ray
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Patients mentioned
John Ray
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John Ray’s health prevents him from working. His motivation is failing in light of his Methods and Supplement likely not being published during his lifetime. Sherard will subscribe for 20 copies to help Ray. He discusses plant specimens sent from Boccone.
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 Ray to Hans Sloane – June 2, 1699
Item info
Date: June 2, 1699
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 281-282
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Scholarship
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Subjects
America, Books, Botany, Classification, Jamaica, Maryland, Plants, Publishing
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Date (as written)
June 2, 1699
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Black Notley
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Others mentioned
Paolo Silvio Boccone Paul Hermann Mr Smith David Krieg
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Patients mentioned
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Ray claims only to be capable of doing shabby work with the Maryland plants, as he is ‘a stranger to them’ and cannot determine their genus. He asks Sloane which of the plants are common to Jamaica. He had wanted to see Dr King about them, but the latter is leaving England. Ray says he has read Hermann’s and Boccone’s books and apologizes for having stained them with ink and fire. He informs Sloane that he has reached an agreement with Mr Smith about printing his Supplement.
Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane – June 21, 1706
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Date: June 21, 1706
Author: Richard Richardson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 177-178
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[fol. 177]
North Bierley nigh Bradford June 11 706
Dear Sr
We received your letter of directions for Sr John Kaye & since I recived your second he has persud your method (Scarification only excepted) which he is very much evoscto misleade there of [?] have been apply’d to the places you appoynted which have made very considerable dischar=hes but we have had trouble enough to keepe the places from metifying but now they looke pretty wel he makes water sometimes in good quantity & has found ad: :vantage by the medcins you orderd him for that [?] but I find not with standing our last endeavours the dis: temper grows upon him. vomits of oxymel sciht more orderd him sometime nyue or the best expediant to re: :leine his Asthma & were repeated nut he fainted several times though the medcine wrought gently mongh & I feared once that he would [?] have recoverd that fowad of spirits which it brought upon him. he is pretty calm yels good nights & though his swelling increase tey I beleive may continue some months;
I am veey much obligen to you for the Books in Naturel History you design me, I am till picking up some small matters in that way as I meet with them & shoud be glad to male a further improvement of my small collection. if any things of this kind come bought to you with which you are already plentifully supplyd, they will be welcome here & shall gratefully repay any expence you are at about them,
If anything of this country affords wil be acceptable to you I should be very glad to serve you, you may sends hither every week from the Whitehorse in Cripplegate by the Bradfors Carier Mr Kaye & Dr Johnston I am in service to you with
your obd. servant
Ric: Richardson
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]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: Sir John Kaye
Gender:
Age:67 years old.
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Description
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Diagnosis
Asthma; swelling legs; difficult making water.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment: Blisters were applied where Sloane appointed. Richardson is having trouble keeping them from mortifying. Several medicines were recommended by Sloane, including vomits of oxymel.
Response: Kaye sometimes makes water in good quantity and improved after taking Sloane's medicines. However, the distemper is growing. The oxymel vomit wrought well, but made Kaye faint several times.
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Urinary, Asthma, Swelling
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John Morton to Hans Sloane – August 29, 1706
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Date: August 29, 1706
Author: John Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 210-211
Original Page
Transcription
John Morton was a naturalist who was in correspondence with Sloane from roughly 1703 to 1716. Morton contributed nearly one thousand specimens (fossils, shells, bones, teeth, minerals, rocks, man-made artifacts, etc.) to Sloane’s collection (Yolanda Foote, Morton, John (16711726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19364, accessed 2 July 2013]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Unnamed
Gender:
Age:A girl.
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Description
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Diagnosis
Greensickness; body swollen in reaction to vomiting.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: Was prescribed vomits.
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: Morton believes the vomiting was caused by the quality, not the quantity, of the purgative. The swelling was caused by the great mass of cheese and phlegm in the girl's system keeping the vomit from coming up as it should have.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Swelling, Greensickness, Birth Defect, Anus Imperforate
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Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon to Hans Sloane – December 16, 1704
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Date: December 16, 1704
Author: Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: f. 406
Original Page
Transcription
Hyde encloses a present for Sloane.
Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, was a politician who served as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland under James II. He went into self-imposed exile to avoid arrest after falling on the wrong side of the Glorious Revolution (1688), but returned to parliamentary politics in the 1690s (W. A. Speck, Hyde, Henry, second earl of Clarendon (16381709), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2012 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14329, accessed 9 July 2013]).
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John Ray to Hans Sloane – March 22, 1698/9
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Date: March 22, 1698/9
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 235-236
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A parcel accompanies the letter. Ray discusses the beauty of the dried plant specimens he is working with, but laments that things went poorly with the latest batch. He could not get at the fruit or seeds without marring them. He claims little is known about the root. Ray notes that he is not familiar with Indian or American plants, which is why he is reluctant to work with them. He had hoped Sloane and others would have already named and classified them. Ray will compare these specimens with the Maryland plants Sloane provided him.
Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013]).