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Brian Wang
June 23, 2018

Han Sloane achieved great wealth about 300 years ago and it was from what we would term biotech today.

I recently went on an excellent tour of the British Museum. Retired lawyer Allan Lawson provided the tour and provided great stories like the story of Hans Sloane. There were also insights into the how public museums emerged and how it related to the printing presses and growth of production.

Hans Sloane lived from 1660 to 1753. He grew up from a family of modest means.

Sloane became a protégé of Thomas Sydenham, the most influential physician of the day in London. When the older man was too sick with gout and other infirmities, Sloane would represent Sydenham. In 1687, Sloane was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

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