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and that, in her last illness, she was blooded by 

 him ; but, soon after the accession of George I. 

 he was created a baronet,* being the first English 

 physician on whom an hereditary title of honour 

 had been conferred, and was appointed physician 

 general to the army, which office he enjoyed till 

 1727, when George II. made him his own 

 physician. He had, in 1719> been elected 

 President of the College of Physicians, which 

 high honour he continued to hold till 1735, when 

 he resigned. 



During the intervals of relaxation from a life 

 so laborious as that of an eminent London 

 physician, Dr Sloane arranged his Collections 

 and Observations, formed while in the West 

 Indies, and, preparatory to his great work, 

 printed, in 1696, 8vo. his Catalogue of Jamaica 

 plants, with the following title : " Catalogus 

 Plantarum quae in Insula Jamaica, sponte pro- 

 veniunt, vel vulgo coluntur, cum earundem 

 synonimis et locis natalibus, Adjectis aliis qui- 

 busdam quae in Insulis Madeira, Barbadoes, Nevis, 

 et Sancti Christopheri nascuntur ; ceu Prodromi 

 Historia Naturalis Jamaica, pars prima." This he 



that office, and Sloane thus obtain the appointment o 

 physician extraordinary, which would explain the fact of 

 bis being called in to attend her Majesty's death-bed. 

 * April 3, 1716. 



