Collection of Letters of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641-1722) 1696-1711

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Collection of Letters of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641-1722) 1696-1711

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb237-coll-492

1 manuscript volume

eng,

Edinburgh University Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6294797

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Sibbald, Robert, Sir, 1641-1722

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Epithet: MD, President of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001034.0x00015c ...

Sir Robert Sibbald, 1641-1722

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Robert Sibbald was born in Edinburgh on 15 April 1641. He was educated in Cupar in Fife, Dundee, and Edinburgh, and studied at Edinburgh University. At first it was thought he would enter the Church but then he decided on medicine and in 1660 went to Leiden in the Netherlands. After taking his degree of MD in 1661 with a dissertation entitled De variis tabis speciebus he went to Paris and then to Angers. In 1662 he returned to Edinburgh by way of London. In 1667, after obtaining some ground belo...

Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753

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Hans Sloane was born in England in 1660. He studied chemistry at Apothecaries' Hall, and botany at the Chelsea Physic Garden. He went on to apprentice in medicine under Sydenham, and took over the practice when Sydenham became too ill to work. Dr. Sloane traveled to Jamaica as the physician of the second Duke of Albemarle in 1688. While in Jamaica, he collected and brought home to England more than 800 species of plants. He published two books on his experience and discoveries in Jamaica. After ...