The circumstances of dating for this case is a little unusual - it appears as though the case note were written a year prior to the author approaching Cullen, and because it was thus dated, has at some point been rearranged within the collection of material so as to be bundled with other documents from that year.

Documents in this case

4 document(s) found in this case.

DOC ID	Summary	Date
[DOC ID:1103]	Letter from the physician, poet and dramatist Hugh Downman in Exeter, promising to send the case of his sister and also including draft of address to Cullen which he seeks permission to include in Book 3 of his work Infancy: Or, The Management of Children: a Didactic Poem, published in stages between 1774 and 1790. The lines were included in the published version first appearing in 1776. and lacunae in the manuscript due to damage are supplied from this printed edition. Downman had studied medicine under Cullen.	4 January 1775
[DOC ID:875]	Case of Miss Downman, this time written in English, as sent by her brother the physician and poet Hugh Downman, who had attended Cullen's lectures. His sister is very suspicious of professional diagnoses which suggest that her 'Hysteria" is a purely mental disorder.	February 1775?
[DOC ID:874]	Case note on 'Mistress A. Downman of the County of Devon', in Latin, by her brother, the physician and poet Hugh Downman. She has been suffering from grief, bouts of weeping, and prickling sensations like those of gorse, since the death of another brother in 1771. She has consulted Fothergill in London. She becomes angry if it is suggested that the cause is in her imagination.	7 February 1774
[DOC ID:3774]	Reply to 'Mr [Hugh] Downman', regarding his sister, Miss Downman, who has 'a great deal of bodily disease', as well as 'a weakness and delicacy of the nervous system'.	14 March 1775

These documents contain one or more that share the same date. We have manually applied an order based on what we know.

People involved in this case

10 found.

PERS ID	Full Name
[PERS ID: 5876]
[PERS ID: 1]	Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID: 455]	Dr Hugh Downman
[PERS ID: 456]	Miss Anne Downman (Ann)
[PERS ID: 5869]	Mr John Downman
[PERS ID: 5877]	Mr Hugh Downman (of Newton House, St. Cyrus)
[PERS ID: 5878]	Mrs Anne Downman
[PERS ID: 707]	Dr John Fothergill
[PERS ID: 997]	Dr William Heberden
[PERS ID: 522]	Sir John Pringle

Unique Places linked to this Case

4 found.

Type	Specific Place	Village/Town/City (aka)	Region	Country	Continent	Confidence
Place		Exeter	South-West	England	Europe	certain
Place		Edinburgh	Edinburgh and East	Scotland	Europe	certain
Place		London	London and South-East	England	Europe	certain
Place		Hampshire	London and South-East	England	Europe	certain

Places and role of place

8 found.

Type	Role	Specific Place	Village/Town/City (aka)	Region	Country	Continent	Confidence
Place	Place of Writing		Edinburgh	Edinburgh and East	Scotland	Europe	inferred
Place	Place of Writing		Exeter	South-West	England	Europe	certain
Place	Destination of Letter		Edinburgh	Edinburgh and East	Scotland	Europe	inferred
Place	Destination of Letter		Exeter	South-West	England	Europe	inferred
Place	Mentioned / Other		Edinburgh	Edinburgh and East	Scotland	Europe	certain
Place	Mentioned / Other		London	London and South-East	England	Europe	certain
Place	Mentioned / Other		Hampshire	London and South-East	England	Europe	certain
Place	Place of Handstamp		Exeter	South-West	England	Europe	certain