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The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

 

[ID:4368] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Mrs E. Caithness / Regarding: Anonymous (Patient) / 25 January 1779 / (Outgoing)

Reply, 'To Mrs Caithness Q[uery] a Lady'

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DOC ID 4368
RCPE Catalogue Number CUL/1/1/11/106
Main Language English
Document Direction Outgoing
Date25 January 1779
Annotation None
TypeScribal copy ( includes Casebook Entry)
Enclosure(s) No enclosure(s)
Autopsy No
Recipe Yes
Regimen No
Letter of Introduction No
Case Note No
Summary Reply, 'To Mrs Caithness Q[uery] a Lady'
Manuscript Incomplete? No
Evidence of Commercial Posting No

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Case ID Description Num Docs
[Case ID:688]
Case of an unnamed female patient with eruptions of the skin.
3


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[PERS ID:1]AuthorDr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:2167]AddresseeMrs E. Caithness
[PERS ID:2166]Patient
[PERS ID:1]Patient's Physician / Surgeon / ApothecaryDr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)

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Place of Writing Cullen's House / Mint Close Edinburgh Edinburgh and East Scotland Europe certain
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To Mrs Caithness Query a Lady.


After even the answers to my Queries I am sorry I can
not yet discover the cause of the lady's complaints so as to
lead me to any effectual remedy. The tremor & weakness
are the chief & almost only disease & have now subsisted so
long that they must be considered as founded in a fault
of the constitution hardly now to be eradicated. It
may possibly be mended.


The flesh brush already employed may still be of
service
, applied chiefly to the limbs from the haunches
downwards & this may be conveniently done while she
lies abed: the rubbing gentle but long continued.


Fresh air & exercise, if she can bear being carried out
in a carriage.


The only medicine I can propose is ordered below. Let
her take a tea spoonful of it in half an English pint of
spring water at two or three draughts at intervals of a
quarter or half an hour, finishing all, at least half an
hour before breakfast. If this sit light on her stomach
the dose of the Tincture may be increased to two or three
teanspoonfuls. -- I say nothing about the eruption
because it is upon the decline & because the Tincture
may be of use in discussing it, & if I should be mistaken
in this I must leave her to employ the medicines she
formerly found effectual.

Take two ounces of Tincture of Mars, prepared according to the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia, two drachms of spirit of lavender. Mix it and label it: Strengthening Tincture


Edinburgh January 25. 1779.
W.C.

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To Mrs Caithness Q a Lady.


After even the answers to my Queries I am sorry I can
not yet discover the cause of the lady's complaints so as to
lead me to any effectual remedy. The tremor & weakness
are the chief & almost only disease & have now subsisted so
long that they must be considered as founded in a fault
of the constitution hardly now to be eradicated. It
may possibly be mended.


The flesh brush already employed may still be of
service
, applied chiefly to the limbs from the haunches
downwards & this may be conveniently done while she
lies abed: the rubbing gentle but long continued.


Fresh air & exercise, if she can bear being carried out
in a carriage.


The only medicine I can propose is ordd below. Let
her take a tea spoonful of it in half an English pint of
spring water at two or three draughts at intervals of a
quarter or half an hour, finishing all, at least half an
hour before breakfast. If this sit light on her stomach
the dose of the Tincture may be increased to two or three
teanspoonfuls. -- I say nothing about the eruption
because it is upon the decline & because the Tincture
may be of use in discussing it, & if I should be mistaken
in this I must leave her to employ the medicines she
formerly found effectual.


Tinct. Mart. Ph. Ed. ed. ult. ℥ij Spr. lavend. comp. ʒij
ℳ. Signa Strengthening Tincture.


Edinr. Janr. 25. 1779.
W.C.

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