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

 

[ID:103] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: [ADDRESSEE UNKNOWN] / Regarding: Miss Bettie Hume (Hume) (Elizabeth) (Patient) / 21 August 1770 / (Outgoing)

Reply 'For Miss Betty Hume'

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DOC ID 103
RCPE Catalogue Number CUL/1/1/1/98
Main Language English
Document Direction Outgoing
Date21 August 1770
Annotation None
TypeScribal copy ( includes Casebook Entry)
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Autopsy No
Recipe Yes
Regimen No
Letter of Introduction No
Case Note No
Summary Reply 'For Miss Betty Hume'
Manuscript Incomplete? No
Evidence of Commercial Posting No

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[Case ID:71]
Case of Miss Betty Hume who has breathing problems.
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[PERS ID:1]AuthorDr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:1284]PatientMiss Bettie Hume (Elizabeth)
[PERS ID:1]Patient's Physician / Surgeon / ApothecaryDr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)

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For Miss Bettie Hume


1. Miss Hume must continue to use a very light diet
chiefly of vegetables and milk and she should return
again to the tryal of the Asses milk beginning with a
small quantity and increasing by degrees. Sometimes
a tea spoonfull or two of Brandy or Rum will make
the milk sit better on the Stomach and Miss Bettie
may try this measure.


2. Miss Hume should go on horseback
every day that is fair avoiding however the Sun when it
is very warm Her motion should be very gentle but
continued as long as she can bear it without fatigue



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much walking and especially up hill will readily do
harm, but her being in the fresh air and walking
gently on level ground will always be of service...


3. Cold and wet are carefully to be avoided and
as soon as any cold weather sets in she should put
on a flannel shirt, to be used both night and day.


4. The burgundy pitch plaister should be again
put to her back at least as soon as the weather is
a little cooler. I have ordered below a plaister to
be put upon the pained part of her side.


5. When she is troubled with any degree of looseness
she may take at bed time the anodyne Draught
ordered below but I suspect that such accidental
looseness is owing to a previous costiveness neglected,
and both may be prevented by her taking immediately
before breakfast two or three tea spoonfulls of the
Electuary ordered below.


6. To relieve her breathing
let her take every night at bed time three of the
pectoral pills prescribed below, washing them down
with a little water gruel or Barley water either
of which will do for her ordinary drink.

Take three [parts?] emplastrum cereum and one part Emplastrum Epispasticum, spread on leather, 4 [thumbs?] long and 2 wide. Label: Anodyne Plaister for the Side.

Take one ounce of {illeg} cinnamon water, half an ounce of syrup of Diacodium, ten drops of L. L., and mix. Make a draught. Label: Anodyne Draught.

Take one and a half ounces of fine grained crystal tartar, one ounce of juice of French prunes, and a sufficient quantity of syrup of white roses, and make a [soft?] electuary. Label: Laxative Electuary.

Take one scruple of balsam of Tolu, two scruples of powdered white sugar, one drachm each of enulcampagne and Elderberry Rob, and a sufficient quantity of syrup of balsam, and make a mass, divided into forty pills. Label: Pectoral Pills.

21 August 1770 ---

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[Page 1]
For Miss Bettie Hume


1. Miss Hume must continue to use a very light diet
chiefly of vegetables and milk and she should return
again to the tryal of the Asses milk beginning with a
small quantity and increasing by degrees. Sometimes
a tea spoonfull or two of Brandy or Rum will make
the milk sit better on the Stomach and Miss Bettie
may try this measure.


2. Miss Hume should go on horseback
every day that is fair avoiding however the Sun when it
is very warm Her motion should be very gentle but
continued as long as she can bear it without fatigue



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much walking and especially up hill will readily do
harm, but her being in the fresh air and walking
gently on level ground will always be of service...


3. Cold and wet are carefully to be avoided and
as soon as any cold weather sets in she should put
on a flannel shirt, to be used both night and day.


4. The burgundy pitch plaister should be again
put to her back at least as soon as the weather is
a little cooler. I have ordered below a plaister to
be put upon the pained part of her side.


5. When she is troubled with any degree of looseness
she may take at bed time the anodyne Draught
ordered below but I suspect that such accidental
looseness is owing to a previous costiveness neglected,
and both may be prevented by her taking immediately
before breakfast two or three tea spoonfulls of the
Electuary ordered below.


6. To relieve her breathing
let her take every night at bed time three of the
pectoral pills prescribed below, washing them down
with a little water gruel or Barley water either
of which will do for her ordinary drink.


Empl. Ceru p.iij Epipast. p. j. ℳ & extendatur super alutam
4 poll. long. 2 latam Signa Anodyne Plaister for the Side.


Aq. Cinnam. s. v. ℥j syr. Diacad. ℥ſs L. L. gtt x. ℳ f. Haustus
signa Anodyne Draught


Crystall. Tartar. p. subt. ℥iſs Pulp. Prun. Gall. ℥j Syr. Ros. pall. q. s.
ut f. Elect. molle. Signa Laxative Electuary


Bals. Tolut. ℈j Sacch. alb. ℈ij pulv. Enul. camp. Rob Sambuc @ ʒj Syr.
Bals.
q. s. ut f. massa divid. in pil. № XL Signa Pectoral Pills

21 Augst 1770 ---

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