SIR HANS SLOANE. 
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emoluments of that office ; but, because he would 
not offer a precedent that might be injurious to 
his successors, he punctually took the money, but 
constantly applied it to the relief of those belong- 
ing to the Hospital who were in greatest need. 
This appointment he filled till 1730, when age 
and infirmities obliged him to resign. As it is 
as a naturalist and patron of science he is con- 
nected with this work, we shall merely enumerate 
his professional appointments and honours, which 
were very numerous ; and it is sufficient to men- 
tion, that, in the College of Physicians, he warmly 
promoted the plan of a Dispensary for the sick 
poor, which met with so much opposition from 
the apothecaries, and which gave rise to Dr 
Garth’s well known satire. 
Although the Doctor does not appear to have 
been in her Majesty’s household,* we are told 
that he was frequently consulted by Queen Anne, 
* It has been stated, in the “ History of Europe for 
1712,” that “ Dr Hans Sloane was sworn physician to 
Queen Anne in the room of Dr Shadwell but we sus- 
pect that this is a mistake, as we are not aware that Dr 
Shadwell was displaced from that appointment, and he 
held it both under George I. who knighted him, and 
George II. ; indeed, till his death, which happened 
December 4, 1747 ; unless it occurred in this way, 
Dr Shad well’s name stands in Chamberlain’s “ Present 
State of Great Britain for 1710" as Physician Extra- 
ordinary to the Queen. Perhaps, by the death of one of 
her physicians in ordinary, Shadwell might succeed to 
