DR. BENJAMIN ALLEN, OF BRAINTREE. 
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and detailed record of such observations, extending (as this 
does) to several hundred closely-written pages approximating 
foolscap size. 
The references to Samuel Dale are, in this volume, as in the 
other, 10 singularly few. I have noticed four only. From the 
tone of one or two of these, one seems to gather that there was a 
certain amount of professional jealousy in the way Allen regarded 
Dale. 
In one place (p. 46), Allen refers to the case of a man bitten 
by a mad dog, who was brought to him for treatment in 1695, 
“ but [he says], I being at London, he went to Mr. Dale.” 
Elsewhere, Allen pastes in (p. 329) a letter, dated 10th Nov. 
1720, from Sir Hans Sloane, the Royal Physician, to Dale, who 
had written to Sloane, on Allen’s behalf, asking his opinion as 
to the best method of treating some difficult case of fever—- 
indeed, it looks almost as though it had been on behalf of Allen 
personally that Dale had consulted Sloane. In any case, the 
great physician seems generally to have approved what was 
being done in treating the patient—whether Allen or someone 
else. 
Another case in which Dale was concerned was that of Mrs. 
Luckin, of Booking, who suffered from “ a periodical agueish 
jaundice,” of which Allen says (p. 93) :— 
“ I try’d the bark and common elect[uary] for a jaundys mentioned 
before, but toucht neither the ague nor the jaundys. I would have had 
her taken the Epsom Salt and then gone to the waters [at Tunbridge 
Wells] ; but Mr. Dale, her acquaintance, oppos’d me and carry’d her 
away from sound advice ; so, in his essays, she dy’d.” 
Again, referring (p. 283) to some children belonging to the Tabor 
family, who were suffering from the small pox and were being 
treated by Dale, who had bled them, Allen seems to have 
considered Dale’s treatment ill-advised. However, the children 
recovered, so no harm was done. 
References to Ray are, on the other hand, quite numerous. 
Most of them tend to show that (in the earlier period of their 
acquaintance, at any rate) the relations of the two men were 
intimate, and that Allen had for Ray a feeling of respect amount¬ 
ing almost to veneration. Over and over again, Allen has noted 
down some fact which Ray had told him or some opinion Ray had 
10 See ante, p. 153 
