324 CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 



Mr. RAY to Dr. HANS SLOANE. 



Black Notley, May 12, -97. 



SIR, I have this week, by carrier, sent back the sec- 

 tions you did me the favour to lend me, which I thought 

 necessary to give you advice of, lest the carrier should be 

 negligent in doing his duty. I am now ready for more, 

 so soon as you shall please to send them. I find them 

 very correct, nor can discover anything that needs amend- 

 ment. The messenger's haste will permit me to add no 

 more, but that I am, Sir, 



Your very affectionate and much obliged 

 friend and servant, 



JOHN RAY. 



For his honoured friend, Dr. Hans Sloane, 



at his house at the corner of Southampton street, 

 towards Bloomsbury square, London. 



Mr. RAY to Dr. HANS SLOANE. 



Black Notley, July 7th, 97. 



SIR, I wrote to you last week, which I hope came to 

 your hands. I have received the parcel you sent Friday 

 last, together with the letter of advice, for which I return 

 thanks. One thing I have to acquaint you with in refer- 

 ence to myself, and to beg your advice. In the beginning 

 of May last, if you remember, there was about a week of 

 extraordinary hot weather, which had such influence upon 

 the sores of my legs (which were then almost wholly dried 

 up and healed, that it altered the nature of them, and 

 turned them into a kind of lieppes or tetter, which hath 

 spread very much, and encompassed my legs ; it was and 

 is still attended with an extraordinary heat and itching. 

 I have used, by the advice of our physician at Braintree, 

 a decoction of litharge, of his own preparing, to bathe 



