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MEMOIR OF 
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 ct locis natalibus, Adjectis aliis qui- 
busdamquae 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 of 
physician extraordinary, which would explain the fact of 
his being called in to attend her Majesty’s death-bed. 
* April 3, 1716. 
