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Letter 0924

Ralph Thoresby to Hans Sloane – June 7, 1704


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Date: June 7, 1704
Author: Ralph Thoresby
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: f. 305



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Thoresby discusses books on runic inscriptions and ‘an account of a curiosity that relates to the late King James’s Irish money, wch I am apt to think you never heard of’. The account was sent to him by Thomas Pusland, who found them in the treasury at Dublin. It reads: ‘That King James, having turned all the brass Guns of Ireland, & all the brass & coper vessels of Protestants yt he could seize into Coyne, vizt half Crowns somewhat bigger than an English halfpenny; shillings broader but not so thick as a farthing, & 6ds in proportion, it was ordered to passe currancy in all patmys, even in Bonds & discharge of Judgement & Statutes (in so much yt if ages to come knew not the reason, they would armire to be told that there was a time that men absconded to avoid receiving their debts, as many here did) but these Works of Metall being al spent (wch he begins to coyne in June 1689) and in circulation to bring them back into his Treasure, he cald in all that he had coyned, & the half crowns wch before were stamped with a face were restamped with his effigies on horsback, and then paid out to those who brought them in, as Crowns, and the smaller coyns were melted down & recomed under the same denominations, but with lesse metall, after the time was served by this strategm, he had not wherewithall to import Copper & brass, but for want of it fell foul on the Pewter dishes &c… and the peice I sent you of yt mettall was coyned for five shillings, & the proclamation to make it passable was as ready as the stamps, for it was prepared, but King William passing the Boyne prevented their proclaiming it, there was very little of it coyned, for our Government could meet with none of it, untill one day romaging all their tinkerley treasure that they left behind them in Dublin, when they were routed; by accident I met with one bagg of 150 of those peices, so yt the peice I sent you, altho its of no intrinsick value, its a rarity, and had I thot it would have been acceptable, I would have sent you a specimen of every sort yt he coyned & recoyned here” (from Thomas Pusland, 27 Nov. 1696)’. 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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Letter 0912

Ralph Thoresby to Hans Sloane – March 15, 1703/04


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Date: March 15, 1703/04
Author: Ralph Thoresby
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 271-272



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Thoresby follows up his account of the earthquake with another, this time from a clergyman near Lincoln, who wrote: ‘December 20, 5:00am; noise like 3 coaches driving furiously; great damage was done to the composure of a nearby gentlewoman’. Thoresby describes a curiosity he found: a small egg within a regular egg, about 2.5 inches in circumference. 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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Letter 0032

Mary Finch to Hans Sloane – October 28, 1730


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Date: October 28, 1730
Author: Mary Finch
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 133



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Enclosed a fee. Mary Finch (d. 1742) married Edward Finch, a Church of England clergyman and musician, some time before 1707. Mary was the daughter of Nicholas Stanley, fellow of New College, Oxford (David Griffiths, ‘Finch, Edward (bap. 1663, d. 1738)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9429, accessed 25 June 2014]).




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  • Patient info
    Name: Miss. Stanley (Sister)
    Gender:
    Age:
  • Description

    See f. 79 for first letter. Growing visible weakness, swollen stomach and belly, "violent itching", stitches and pains. Healthy complexion, but becoming thin.

  • Diagnosis

    Sloane had been of option that it was "fleshy substance" rather than watery, with which "eminent surgeon" agreed. Writer feared that either would be dangerous.

  • Treatment
    Previous Treatment:

    Patient tried many (unnamed) prescriptions


    Ongoing Treatment:

    Sloane's prescription at bottom of letter: "Sperm. at. ocul. camis. cum. lact. asinuo. Elect. chalbeat cum aromat and julap."


    Response:

    "I cant perceive she is ye better for so doeing". Still growing weaker. Patient was only able by force of will to go out in the coach or move about. She ate well though had no desire for drink though she has a good amount of water of a regular colour. Noticeable weight loss and “violent itching” when she in bed owing to sweating.

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  • Medical problem reference
    Skin ailments, Stomach, Hydropsy, Wasting, Pain

Letter 0100

William Sherard to Hans Sloane – April 11, 1699


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Date: April 11, 1699
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 246-247



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Sherard is glad that Krieg and Vernon are in London again. He asks Sloane to be one of their subscribers in his stead, so as to improve his collection. He mentions the work of amateur Italian botanists as well as ‘P. Kammeli’, which refers to the Jesuit priest and botanist Georg Joseph Kamel, who works in the Philippines. Sherard discusses some books received as well as those he intends to buy. He may travel more in future and outlines his tentative plans. He includes a list of books he has procured. 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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Letter 0893

Ralph Thoresby to Hans Sloane – January 22, 1703/04


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Date: January 22, 1703/04
Author: Ralph Thoresby
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: f. 240



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Thoresby communicates an account of the earthquake that occurred in the North of England on December 28, 1703. It took place 3-4 minutes past 5 in the morning. Thoresby was walking at the time and the bustle of the streets meant that he did not feel it himself. It was, despite this, almost universally felt. Thoresby relates anecdotes of friends and family who felt it. One of his corespondents linked the earthquake to scripture and concluded that humanity deserves their wrath. 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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Letter 0308

John Ray to Hans Sloane – October 21, 1689


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Date: October 21, 1689
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 62



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Ray is alarmed his last letter did not reach Sloane. Sloane is welcome to visit Black Notley whenever he is nearby. Ray encourages Sloane to publish his Jamaican observations and is glad his return voyage to England was uneventful. He thanks Sloane for the seeds. The weather was supposed to be poor the coming winter and Ray does not expect Sloane to travel in it. 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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Letter 2223

Henry Barham Sr. to Hans Sloane – December 11, 1717


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Date: December 11, 1717
Author: Henry Barham Sr.
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 77-79



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[fol. 77] Worthy Sr In my last I gave you some [word missing] of the Oars of Jamaica wch that Island Superabounds with and to give a Perticular account of every sort would make a large Treatise of its self at 16 mile Walk in one Palmers Grouns is found Upon the Earth Loose Stones (that seems to Rowl down from A mountain Near the Place) Iron Stones so Rich of that Mettall as seem to be all Iron and very Hard to Brake a Sunder, the Hammer makes an Impression as if Malabell before it would [text blurred] in peeces; and when Parted a Sunder the Inside Lookt as Red as Lapis Hematites I saw A Sharp Corroded Stone Seem to be Broke off from a large Stone of the Same Colour above Mentioned and brought from the Same Place that would Attrack Iron or Steel as Strong as any Magnett in Proportion to its Bigness: it is Certain that there is many Mines in Jamaica as Rich: if there were a Sett of Rich and Publick Spirited Men would Sett Heartily about the Work and with good Resolution to see the Depth or Bottom of them (and I Could Direct them where to begin) But to proceed to the Intended Matter you mention Introduction page 17 of Anti Neasts brought from the Woods in wch are found Clay Balls of Strange Different Shapes as if made by the Art of Man: and in those Wood Wnti Neasts the Amphosbona found I have seen them about 5 or 6 Inches with Perfect Heads at each End Running Swiftly either Direct or Retrogate or to the Right and Left with Equal Swiftness without Turning about: and in Digging Up of Old foundations I have seen those sort of A Worm like Shape Described and figured in Pisol wch when the Negros saw them, would flye from them [as] if Death its self was there saying they have them in their Country and are Present Death to any that are bitt or stung by them. Introd: page: 54- you Mention the Negroes Remedy: of Clay and Water Plaistering over their bodys with it its True some Negroes may use Barly or no other thing than Clay and Water: and I Thought soo for some years that they had used no Other thing: but upon a more Strickt Inquiery I found it was a yellowish Root wch they Call Altoo the Same Root you Mention in your Catalogus Plantarum page 214 viz Radix Firuticosa: glycyrrhia Similis cortica fuses[.] Besides Cleaning their Teeth with this Root they take it and Grind it very fine between two stones with Water and make an Islutamentum with wch they illuse or Plaister them selves with it and When Dry looks like A yellow Earth: Sometimes they only Illutate the Head and Face, if thats effected Sometimes their Stomach if their Heart is effected for they attribute all inward ails or illness to the Heart Saying their Heart is Noo Boon not Knowing the situation of the Stomach from that of the Heart: if their Limbs and Solid parts are effected they Illutate them selves all over saying their Skin Hurts them: The Affricans hath such Confidence and Opinion of this Root outwardly Applied or Inwardly given Decocted they wholly Dispair of any Relief believing it to be the most Soveraigne Remedy that they know Amongst all the Plants that comes Within their Knowledge. This Root was Much used by an Honrbl: Coll: in Ligano and Cryed Up to be one of the Greatest Remedies in ye World in Colicks or Belly aches: He Telling me the many Experiments He had made by A Simple Decoction of this Root: I had a fair Opportunity to Try Wither this Root was of such efficacy and Matter of Fact in a following Case: I Sent A Servant of Mine A Carpenter Up in to the Mountains to fall and Square Some Timber: who [fol. 78] who was takeing Such Care of Him Self when [word blurred] as He Should Soon found the effect of His Neglect Getting A Great Cold and was seized with most violent Pains in His Viscera and in 24 Hours was Thrown into Strong Convulsions: A messenger bringing this Information: I Rid Up to Him: it being A Place of Great Distance from a Town and where Compound me decides was not to be had: I Thought of the Poll: Root wch Grows in Great Plenty within, 3 or 4 Miles of this Place wch I Sent for and Decocted it in Spring Water and Gave this Poor Man (who had had Several Strong Convulsions and in Violent Pains) of this Decoction Warm about half a pint at A time Repeating it very often. the effect it had it first eased Him of His Pains in A Short time after it wrot [?] Gentrly Downwards and in 3 or 4 Days He thought Him Self as Well as ever He was and is easy all His Convulsive Tremors and Symptoms Left Him: His Appetite Returned and was Throughy Recoverd and So Continued without being Nerviated Paralyzed or Conculsed afterwards. In the Same Page it is Certain as you mention the Negroes make use of Fingrigo Roots for Claps and Some of them ad ye Roots of Prickly yellow Wood and Lime Tree Roots: but the most knowing or skillfull Negroes such as they Call (Oba men) or their Country Doctors use yellow Nickers Beaten to A Powder wch they Say Purges and Bindes them after it: like to our Myrabolins. But a Certain Negro Discovered to a Patient of Myne (that had Labourd under an Old Gleet wch Could not be stopt (after due Purging) by no Restringent or Natural Balsams whatsoever) A Plant wch I Shall Mention Hereafter that only by Decocting it and Drinking about half A pint of itt for 3 or 4 Mornings made Him perfectly Well and Sound of His Gleet as He affirmed to me with Reflections that Negroes Could doo more with their Herbs than Wee Practitioners with all our Art or Skill and I had Reason to Believe Him in this Particular Case: because I gave it my Self afterwards with good Success in the Like Case: Introd: page 55 you say one of the Greatest Remedies the Planters living here have to Prevent Diseases or ill effects of What they Call ill Fumes or Vapours is their Contrayerva wch you Call (and not Without Reason) A ristolochia Scandons Odo [?] ratissima: floris labello purpureo Semino cordato et Odoratissima and is Hernandez Tomahuetlopath. [?] and one of His Ingredients in His Grand Elixir or Great Antidoteas I have been Informed by the Spaaniards: and Besides that Remarkable [ink blot] (you mention Performed by an Indian Upon Dr Smallwood when Wounded by a Poison Arrow it hath been found Since by Daily Experiments to be one of the Greatest Antidotes and Antifribriticis inward by Given that is yet or every was Discovered and Besides the Work Hernandez ascribes to it Mentioned in your Natural History of Jamaica page 162 and that of H:M: it Drives out the Small Pox and Measles and is Prevalent in Calentures and Hectick Fevers This is to its Vertues in Generall: in Particular I know one Mr Henry Hill: or a Lusty Fatt Jolly Man When in Health He happened to be seized with the Belly ach wch what with its Violence and Missing of the Expected Help by Remedies He was Reduced to A miserable State and Condition Given over by all that Set Him being emaciated Lost the use of His Limbs Lingring and Walking about with Help like a Disconsolate and Dispairing Man: at Last He was advised to make use of Contrayerva Infused or Decocted in Spring Water and Drink About half A Pint every Morning for some Week wch Recoverd Him as He Told mee Himself: I being one Day in His Company And to all Appearance Seem to be as fatt and as Jolly as ever I Saw him: and Knowing in what Condition I had Seen Him before askt Him how and by what means He was soo Straingly Recoverd: He Told me it was Purely own to the Great Vertues in Contrayerva [fol. 79] Contrayerva for after He had Tried all things as He Called it and took every bodys advice to Noo effect He took to Drinking of an Infusion of Contrayerva every morning for some time: He said it first Brought a Way Gently for some days very Black Stools: afterwards it wrought strongly by Urine and Sweat Creating a very Great Appetite and Restored Him to A Miracle: it is unspeakable the Praise and Character He Gave the Plant it is Now become in Great use in Jamaica for Loss of Appetites Scraped and infused in Wine or A Tea Made off it; if the Vertues of it was as Well Known in Europe as it is in America There would not be A Drugg in Shopes would be of more Demand than this: I saw A Tymponite Girl Cured with the Contrayerva infused or steept in Spring Water with Rusty Iron put with it: I know one Mr Legott that was subject to A Void Much Blood after wch A Great Swelling and Hardness of His Belly followed that I have been Surprised to See Him He Tould me He Valued not His Swelling for I can Take that Away as I Please with Contrayerva the effect I saw and was Matter of Fact it is Experienced to Kill Worms. I hope you excuse me for being so long Upon this Subject: and am Sr. your most Humble and Obliged Servant Henry Barham London December 11th 1717

Henry Barham (1670?-1726) was a botanist. He lived in Jamaica and corresponded with Sloane on the plant and animal life of the island. Parts of Barham’s letters to Sloane appeared in the latter’s Natural History of Jamaica (T. F. Henderson, Barham, Henry (1670?1726), rev. Anita McConnell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1374, accessed 13 June 2011]).




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  • Patient info
    Name: N/A Unnamed
    Gender:
    Age:
  • Description

    Man had a cold and suffered from stomach pains that led to 'strong Convulsions'.

  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
    Previous Treatment:

    He was given 'Contrayerva' with spring water.


    Ongoing Treatment:
    Response:

    '3 or 4 Days' after taking the initial dose the man was in good health, suffered no further convulsions, and a had full proper appetite.

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  • Medical problem reference
    Pain, Stomach, Sleeplessness, Stomach

Letter 0440

Arthur Charlett to Hans Sloane – April 12, 1697


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Date: April 12, 1697
Author: Arthur Charlett
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 301



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[fol. 301] Sir I have receaved so many Presents from Dr Sloane, that should have long since been acknowledged. I have here inclosed a short account of a Learned book lately published, with great ease and Paine, of such other that Published here, the like Advertisements you shall receive. I desired Dr Gregory to wait upon you, both He and Dr Wallis promise to send you Papers frequently. I cannot meet with Dr Hannes, so as to discourse him fully about this matter. Your Edition of Malpighius is very fair and elegant, and must be very acceptable to all curious persons. You have very honourably done justice to the memory of that excellent Person, who had so particular an Esteem for the Royal Society of England. It is great pity that your Society, the two Universitys, and the Learned part of the City, cannot come to so good an understanding as to enter into some common measures, about taking of Books of Learning, that we might be freed from, depending on the men of Trade, who seldom agree with men of Letters in the same opinion of books. I think you & I did discourse something about a Project of this nature. I should be glad to receave your farther Thoughts at leisure, which upon this or any other subject, shall be extremely welcome to… Your obliged Humble Servant. [ps.] My very humble service to Captain Hutton.

Charlett thanks Sloane for his many presents and discusses a further exchange of books. Charlett laments that the Royal Society and the universities cannot work out some common book exchange that would the best for all.

Charlett was elected Master of University College at Oxford in 1692 and held that post until his death in 1722. Charlett used the mastership to gain influence, especially through persistent letter-writing to numerous correspondents, sharing the latest literary, political, and scholarly gossip (R. H. Darwall-Smith, Charlett, Arthur (16551722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5158, accessed 1 June 2011]).




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Letter 2228

Henry Barham Sr. to Hans Sloane – December 11, 1717


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Date: December 11, 1717
Author: Henry Barham Sr.
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 77-79



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[fol. 77] Worthy Sr In my last I gave you some [word missing] of the Oars of Jamaica wch that Island Superabounds with and to give a Perticular account of every sort would make a large Treatise of its self at 16 mile Walk in one Palmers Grouns is found Upon the Earth Loose Stones (that seems to Rowl down from A mountain Near the Place) Iron Stones so Rich of that Mettall as seem to be all Iron and very Hard to Brake a Sunder, the Hammer makes an Impression as if Malabell before it would [text blurred] in peeces; and when Parted a Sunder the Inside Lookt as Red as Lapis Hematites I saw A Sharp Corroded Stone Seem to be Broke off from a large Stone of the Same Colour above Mentioned and brought from the Same Place that would Attrack Iron or Steel as Strong as any Magnett in Proportion to its Bigness: it is Certain that there is many Mines in Jamaica as Rich: if there were a Sett of Rich and Publick Spirited Men would Sett Heartily about the Work and with good Resolution to see the Depth or Bottom of them (and I Could Direct them where to begin) But to proceed to the Intended Matter you mention Introduction page 17 of Anti Neasts brought from the Woods in wch are found Clay Balls of Strange Different Shapes as if made by the Art of Man: and in those Wood Wnti Neasts the Amphosbona found I have seen them about 5 or 6 Inches with Perfect Heads at each End Running Swiftly either Direct or Retrogate or to the Right and Left with Equal Swiftness without Turning about: and in Digging Up of Old foundations I have seen those sort of A Worm like Shape Described and figured in Pisol wch when the Negros saw them, would flye from them [as] if Death its self was there saying they have them in their Country and are Present Death to any that are bitt or stung by them. Introd: page: 54- you Mention the Negroes Remedy: of Clay and Water Plaistering over their bodys with it its True some Negroes may use Barly or no other thing than Clay and Water: and I Thought soo for some years that they had used no Other thing: but upon a more Strickt Inquiery I found it was a yellowish Root wch they Call Altoo the Same Root you Mention in your Catalogus Plantarum page 214 viz Radix Firuticosa: glycyrrhia Similis cortica fuses[.] Besides Cleaning their Teeth with this Root they take it and Grind it very fine between two stones with Water and make an Islutamentum with wch they illuse or Plaister them selves with it and When Dry looks like A yellow Earth: Sometimes they only Illutate the Head and Face, if thats effected Sometimes their Stomach if their Heart is effected for they attribute all inward ails or illness to the Heart Saying their Heart is Noo Boon not Knowing the situation of the Stomach from that of the Heart: if their Limbs and Solid parts are effected they Illutate them selves all over saying their Skin Hurts them: The Affricans hath such Confidence and Opinion of this Root outwardly Applied or Inwardly given Decocted they wholly Dispair of any Relief believing it to be the most Soveraigne Remedy that they know Amongst all the Plants that comes Within their Knowledge. This Root was Much used by an Honrbl: Coll: in Ligano and Cryed Up to be one of the Greatest Remedies in ye World in Colicks or Belly aches: He Telling me the many Experiments He had made by A Simple Decoction of this Root: I had a fair Opportunity to Try Wither this Root was of such efficacy and Matter of Fact in a following Case: I Sent A Servant of Mine A Carpenter Up in to the Mountains to fall and Square Some Timber: who [fol. 78] who was takeing Such Care of Him Self when [word blurred] as He Should Soon found the effect of His Neglect Getting A Great Cold and was seized with most violent Pains in His Viscera and in 24 Hours was Thrown into Strong Convulsions: A messenger bringing this Information: I Rid Up to Him: it being A Place of Great Distance from a Town and where Compound me decides was not to be had: I Thought of the Poll: Root wch Grows in Great Plenty within, 3 or 4 Miles of this Place wch I Sent for and Decocted it in Spring Water and Gave this Poor Man (who had had Several Strong Convulsions and in Violent Pains) of this Decoction Warm about half a pint at A time Repeating it very often. the effect it had it first eased Him of His Pains in A Short time after it wrot [?] Gentrly Downwards and in 3 or 4 Days He thought Him Self as Well as ever He was and is easy all His Convulsive Tremors and Symptoms Left Him: His Appetite Returned and was Throughy Recoverd and So Continued without being Nerviated Paralyzed or Conculsed afterwards. In the Same Page it is Certain as you mention the Negroes make use of Fingrigo Roots for Claps and Some of them ad ye Roots of Prickly yellow Wood and Lime Tree Roots: but the most knowing or skillfull Negroes such as they Call (Oba men) or their Country Doctors use yellow Nickers Beaten to A Powder wch they Say Purges and Bindes them after it: like to our Myrabolins. But a Certain Negro Discovered to a Patient of Myne (that had Labourd under an Old Gleet wch Could not be stopt (after due Purging) by no Restringent or Natural Balsams whatsoever) A Plant wch I Shall Mention Hereafter that only by Decocting it and Drinking about half A pint of itt for 3 or 4 Mornings made Him perfectly Well and Sound of His Gleet as He affirmed to me with Reflections that Negroes Could doo more with their Herbs than Wee Practitioners with all our Art or Skill and I had Reason to Believe Him in this Particular Case: because I gave it my Self afterwards with good Success in the Like Case: Introd: page 55 you say one of the Greatest Remedies the Planters living here have to Prevent Diseases or ill effects of What they Call ill Fumes or Vapours is their Contrayerva wch you Call (and not Without Reason) A ristolochia Scandons Odo [?] ratissima: floris labello purpureo Semino cordato et Odoratissima and is Hernandez Tomahuetlopath. [?] and one of His Ingredients in His Grand Elixir or Great Antidoteas I have been Informed by the Spaaniards: and Besides that Remarkable [ink blot] (you mention Performed by an Indian Upon Dr Smallwood when Wounded by a Poison Arrow it hath been found Since by Daily Experiments to be one of the Greatest Antidotes and Antifribriticis inward by Given that is yet or every was Discovered and Besides the Work Hernandez ascribes to it Mentioned in your Natural History of Jamaica page 162 and that of H:M: it Drives out the Small Pox and Measles and is Prevalent in Calentures and Hectick Fevers This is to its Vertues in Generall: in Particular I know one Mr Henry Hill: or a Lusty Fatt Jolly Man When in Health He happened to be seized with the Belly ach wch what with its Violence and Missing of the Expected Help by Remedies He was Reduced to A miserable State and Condition Given over by all that Set Him being emaciated Lost the use of His Limbs Lingring and Walking about with Help like a Disconsolate and Dispairing Man: at Last He was advised to make use of Contrayerva Infused or Decocted in Spring Water and Drink About half A Pint every Morning for some Week wch Recoverd Him as He Told mee Himself: I being one Day in His Company And to all Appearance Seem to be as fatt and as Jolly as ever I Saw him: and Knowing in what Condition I had Seen Him before askt Him how and by what means He was soo Straingly Recoverd: He Told me it was Purely own to the Great Vertues in Contrayerva [fol. 79] Contrayerva for after He had Tried all things as He Called it and took every bodys advice to Noo effect He took to Drinking of an Infusion of Contrayerva every morning for some time: He said it first Brought a Way Gently for some days very Black Stools: afterwards it wrought strongly by Urine and Sweat Creating a very Great Appetite and Restored Him to A Miracle: it is unspeakable the Praise and Character He Gave the Plant it is Now become in Great use in Jamaica for Loss of Appetites Scraped and infused in Wine or A Tea Made off it; if the Vertues of it was as Well Known in Europe as it is in America There would not be A Drugg in Shopes would be of more Demand than this: I saw A Tymponite Girl Cured with the Contrayerva infused or steept in Spring Water with Rusty Iron put with it: I know one Mr Legott that was subject to A Void Much Blood after wch A Great Swelling and Hardness of His Belly followed that I have been Surprised to See Him He Tould me He Valued not His Swelling for I can Take that Away as I Please with Contrayerva the effect I saw and was Matter of Fact it is Experienced to Kill Worms. I hope you excuse me for being so long Upon this Subject: and am Sr. your most Humble and Obliged Servant Henry Barham London December 11th 1717

Henry Barham (1670?-1726) was a botanist. He lived in Jamaica and corresponded with Sloane on the plant and animal life of the island. Parts of Barham’s letters to Sloane appeared in the latter’s Natural History of Jamaica (T. F. Henderson, Barham, Henry (1670?1726), rev. Anita McConnell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1374, accessed 13 June 2011]).




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Letter 3853

William Stukeley to Hans Sloane – December 29, 1730


Item info

Date: December 29, 1730
Author: William Stukeley
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: ff. 158-159



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[fol. 158] Honor’d & dear Sr I recd your ler with a very particular pleasure because there in I flatterd my self, that I perceiv’d you had a favor for me, in a matter you will guess by the station I am now in. my living here is worth £200 pound. & I have lately a salary of £25 pound settler on me by the Bishop of Lincoln, as I am governor of an hospital at Stanford, by vertue of my living. & I have a further expectancy of a living in our neighborhood. but it will be some trouble & charge to vindicate the Bishops intended favor to me. which I should dave, as well as the time I could employ better: if you should please more plainly to encourage my hopes. & then I should think only of pushing my future fortunes, in a different quarter of the world. our common friend Mr Gale who well knows all my views, can explain this, if you please to ask him about it. All I have to say, in my own favour is, that no one in life ever had a greater respect for Sr Hans Sloan, than my self, or has upon all occasions more I endeavord to vindicate this honor, when I liv’d in town. & the doing it has cost me some friendships, which I never regretted. I could mention in particular, that it bred a great coolness in a neighbor of mine of Ormond Street. as I always espousd your interests cordially, so I shall be more engag’d to do it when you are my patron, & shall be more enabled to do it, when fixd nearer the Thames, for which I shall willingly enough change my present station, tho’ a very pleasant one. I should then be set more in the eye of the world, & could be then a constant member again of the R. Society, & should endeavor to be an useful one. I have some discourses which I wrote in town, with a view of sheltering them under your name. they are some considerable curiositys in Botany never yet taken notice of. I might then have opportunitys of improving them so as not to be unworthy of your patronage. I hope you will excuse the freedom I here take, in confidence of the long acquaintance I have had with you. no Would I have it thought, that i have done any dishonor to the profession of physick by taking another gown. the first founder of the College did the same, Dr. Linacre, I mean, & dyd a dignitary of the church. & one of my views in it, under direction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, was to combat the infidel spirit that prevails so much in this generation, for which I have made some preparation, & may perchance, doe it more effectually, when I cam to enter the lists, than some others have done, that were altogether bred up in Divinity studys. I heartily pray, dear Sr for your health & happyness, & for the prosperity of your family in all its branches, & am with great truth Dear Sr Your most obliged obedient servant Wm Stukeley Stanford 19 Dec. 1730. I drank your health yesterday at the Duke of Ancasters. the Dutchess & Marquisse of Lindsey are now under my care. I have some curiositys in my colletion, the few yet very remarkable, which I should think honor’d by being added to your invaluable Museum. & I have had some thoughts about that, which I should be glad to communicate, if you have not better settled it your self: so as to be a most noble monument of your fame & learning & industry &c. Pardon haste – I expect to be in town in February.

William Stukeley was an antiquary and natural philosopher. He studied medicine at Corpus Christi, Cambridge and practiced medicine in London and Boston before setting up a practice in Grantham in 1726. Stukeley was acquainted with Dr Richard Mead, Sir Hans Sloane, Edmond Halley, and other prominent intellectuals and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1718. He published several medical treatises and important texts on the stone circles at Stonehenge and Avebury (David Boyd Haycock, Stukeley, William (16871765), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26743, accessed 19 Aug 2013]).




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