Letters on medical and professional matters from various correspondents

Letters from various correspondents, usually medical men, consulting Jurin on treatment of cases. Several of these were Fellows of the Royal Society, including Frederick Slare (1647? -1727), Shallett Turner (1692?-1762) and Edward Vernon (d.1761).

The complete listing of correspondence is as follows:

1. Jacob Johnson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 10 December 1727, to J.J., at Batson's Coffee House, 2p. Ms.

2. Jacob Johnson, Newcastle, 12 January 1727/8 to J.J., at Batson's Coffee House, 2p. Ms.

3. Jacob Johnson, Newcastle, 27 February 1727/8 to J.J., at Batson's Coffee House, 1p. Ms. Endorsed 'Answer'd and writ to Mr. Sh[afto] March 2'.

4. Henry Shafto, Whickham, 12 December 1727, to J.J. at Batson's Coffee House, 1p. Ms.

5. Henry Shafto, Whickham, 24 December 1727, to J.J. at his house on Garlick Hill, 2p. Ms.

6/1-2 Frederick Slare, Greenwich, 13 July 1724, to J.J., Tunbridge, 5p. Ms.

7. Frederick Slare, 13 August 1724 [p.m.], to J.J., Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 4p. Ms. Endorsed 'Answer'd Aug. 20th 1724'.

8. Shallett Turner, Cambridge, 20 February 1725/6, to J.J., at his house on Garlick Hill, 2p. Ms. With notes by J.J.

9. Shallett Turner, Cambridge, 21 April, 1726, to J.J., at his house on Garlick Hill, 1p. Ms. With note by J.J. and endorsed 'Answer'd Apr. 23'.

10. Shallett Turner, Cambridge, 28 April, 1726, to J.J., at his house on Garlick Hill, 2p. Ms. With note by J.J. and endorsed 'Answer'd Apr. 30 1726'.

11. Shallett Turner, Cambridge, 29 May, 1726, to J.J., at his house on Garlick Hill, 2p. Ms. With note by J.J. and endorsed 'Answer'd May 31'.

12. Edward Vernon, Trinity College, Cambridge, 16 August 1724, to J.J., at Tunbridge Wells in Kent, 2p. Ms.

13. Thomas Worsley, Hovingham, 25 November 1746, to J.J., at his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, 2p. Ms. With a note by J.J.

1724-1746

13 items

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).