Cullen

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

 

[ID:4461] From: [AUTHOR UNKNOWN] / To: [ADDRESSEE UNKNOWN] / Regarding: [A matter not directly regarding a patient] / 21 June 1779 / (Outgoing)

Reply headed 'Mrs Gillon C. Mr Fr. Cuninghame' [ Vol.12, p.28]. Recipe Only.

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FieldData
DOC ID 4461
RCPE Catalogue Number CUL/1/1/12/28
Main Language English
Document Direction Outgoing
Date21 June 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 headed 'Mrs Gillon C. Mr Fr. Cuninghame' [ Vol.12, p.28]. Recipe Only.
Manuscript Incomplete? No
Evidence of Commercial Posting No

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Case ID Description Num Docs
[Case ID:1120]
Case of Frank Cunningham, probably a child, recovering but he may have worms.
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Mrs Gillon C. Mr Fr. Cunninghame

Take five grains of crab's eyes, ten grains of magnesia alba, three grains of powdered electuary of rhubarb. Make a powder of it to be taken in case of emergency. 6 doses. Label: Aperient Powder one to be taken in a little water once of two days ---


It ought to open his belly, without much purging and
if it purges him much
, the doeses must either be given
more seldom or the Medicine changed. -------

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Mrs Gillon C. Mr Fr. Cunninghame


Ocul. cancr. prop. g v. Magn. alb. gr x. Pulv rhu elect. gr iij
ℳ. f. Pulves et f.h.m dos. № vj. - S. Aperient Powder
one to be taken in a little water once of two days ---


It ought to open his belly, without much purging and
if it purges him much
, the doeses must either be given
more seldom or the Medicine changed. -------

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