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

 

[ID:5782] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: [ADDRESSEE UNKNOWN] / Regarding: Mr John Collingwood (Patient) / 16 February 1789 / (Outgoing)

Reply, 'For John Collingwood Esqr'

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DOC ID 5782
RCPE Catalogue Number CUL/1/1/21/54
Main Language English
Document Direction Outgoing
Date16 February 1789
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TypeMachine scribal copy
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Autopsy No
Recipe Yes
Regimen Yes
Letter of Introduction No
Case Note No
Summary Reply, 'For John Collingwood Esqr'
Manuscript Incomplete? No
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[Case ID:2322]
Case of John Collingwood.
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[PERS ID:1]AuthorDr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:5566]PatientMr John Collingwood
[PERS ID:1]Patient's Physician / Surgeon / ApothecaryDr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)

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For John Collingwood Esqr.


Having considered with great attention the
whole circumstances of his complaint I am clearly
of opinion that they are attended with no danger
and that a little time and pains will recover
them entirely, but at the same time if he
does not attend to a proper regimen, he may
have a return of his ailments.


To remove them at present I have pre¬
scribed {illeg} upon the inclosed paper two me¬
dicines, which I hope shall answer the
purpose. One of them is a Set of Pills, of
which he is to take one or two every night
at bed time. While his belly continues reg¬
ular one will be enough [but?] if he should
become anyways costive, he may take two [or?]
even three. They may be washed down with
a little wine and water.




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The other medicine is a Tincture of which he
will please take a table spoonful every day
about an hour before dinner, mixing it with
two or three table spoonfuls of Spring water.


These are the only medicines I can
think necessary at present, but I depend
upon his regimen more than upon medicine.


In his diet he may take a weak Bohea
or Cocoa tea for breakfast with bread, and a
moderate quantity of butter, but without
jelly, marmalade, or other sweet thing.


At dinner he may take any ordinary
fare, but let him begin it with a plait of
plain soup, with a little toasted bread. He
may take a bit of any plain animal [food?] {illeg}
likes best, and frequently a little of the
light white fish, but {illeg} ↑let↑ the quantity
of animal food be always [moderate?], and
{illeg} up with some light pud[ding]



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and some vegetables, but the latter rather
sparingly, avoiding these which he finds
ready to prove windy. His ordinary drink
should be water with a little wine in it
avoiding all kinds of Malt liquor. At
dinner, or after dinner he may take a few
glasses of plain wine, but they ought to
be a few only, and when that is the case
he may take the kind of wine he likes
best. In the afternoon he may take a
single Cup of Coffee not very strong, or
a dish or two of Bohea tea, but he should
not at any time take any green.


At Supper he may take a soft boiled
Egg with a little vegetables, and a dry toast
a little negus may frequently serve for
the whole.


Every day that is tolerably fair, he
should take two or three {illeg}



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in the forenoon either on horseback or in a Carriage
taking care then at all other times to avoid
cold.

William Cullen

Edinburgh 16th. February
1789



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For John Collingwood Esqr.

Take one drachm each of a mass of Aloetick Pills and Asafoetida ten grains of green Vitriol add a sufficient quantity of Mucilago of gum Arabic thicken so as to make a mass divisible into single pills of five grains each. Label: Aperient pills. One or two to be taken every night at bed time

Take three ounces of Tincture of Peruvian bark two ounces of bitter Tincture and one ounce of aromatic Tincture Mix. Label: Stomachic Tincture a table spoonful mixed with two or three spoonfuls of Spring water to be taken every day about an hour before dinner.

W.C.

16th. February
1789

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[Page 1]
For John Collingwood Esqr.


Having considered with great attention the
whole circumstances of his complaint I am clearly
of opinion that they are attended with no danger
and that a little time and pains will recover
them entirely, but at the same time if he
does not attend to a proper regimen, he may
have a return of his ailments.


To remove them at present I have pre¬
scribed {illeg} upon the inclosed paper two me¬
dicines, which I hope shall answer the
purpose. One of them is a Set of Pills, of
which he is to take one or two every night
at bed time. While his belly continues reg¬
ular one will be enough [but?] if he should
become anyways costive, he may take two [or?]
even three. They may be washed down with
a little wine and water.




[Page 2]


The other medicine is a Tincture of which he
will please take a table spoonful every day
about an hour before dinner, mixing it with
two or three table spoonfuls of Spring water.


These are the only medicines I can
think necessary at present, but I depend
upon his regimen more than upon medicine.


In his diet he may take a weak Bohea
or Cocoa tea for breakfast with bread, and a
moderate quantity of butter, but without
jelly, marmalade, or other sweet thing.


At dinner he may take any ordinary
fare, but let him begin it with a plait of
plain soup, with a little toasted bread. He
may take a bit of any plain animal [food?] {illeg}
likes best, and frequently a little of the
light white fish, but {illeg} ↑let↑ the quantity
of animal food be always [moderate?], and
{illeg} up with some light pud[ding]



[Page 3]

and some vegetables, but the latter rather
sparingly, avoiding these which he finds
ready to prove windy. His ordinary drink
should be water with a little wine in it
avoiding all kinds of Malt liquor. At
dinner, or after dinner he may take a few
glasses of plain wine, but they ought to
be a few only, and when that is the case
he may take the kind of wine he likes
best. In the afternoon he may take a
single Cup of Coffee not very strong, or
a dish or two of Bohea tea, but he should
not at any time take any green.


At Supper he may take a soft boiled
Egg with a little vegetables, and a dry toast
a little negus may frequently serve for
the whole.


Every day that is tolerably fair, he
should take two or three {illeg}



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in the forenoon either on horseback or in a Carriage
taking care then at all other times to avoid
cold.

William Cullen

Edinr. 16th. Feby.
1789



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For John Collingwood Esqr.


Mass. Pil aloet.
Asafoetid @ ʒj
Vitriol. mart. gr. X
Mucilag. g. Arab. q. s. ut f. massa dividenda
in pil. gr. V.
Sig. Aperient pills One or two to be taken every
night at bed time


Tinct. cort. Peruv. ℥iij
--- amar. ℥ij
--- aromat. ℥j
ℳ. Sig. Stomachic Tincture a table spoonful
mixed with two or three spoonfuls of Spring water
to be taken every day about an hour before dinner.

W.C.

16th. Feby.
1789

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