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Captain Fergusons Compliments to Doctor Cullen

Begs leave to Submit the following Case to his Consideration.

C: F: will call upon Doctor Cullen at half past two this afternoon
if he is to be at home, & will be obliged to the Doctor from some
general Directions, as he is obliged to go out of Town. ––

These three Months by past I have been frequently
troubled with a pain in my Stomach, loss of Appetite, Giddiness & Head-ake
attended with clammy Sweats twitchings restlessness (And I apprehend some degree
of a Slow fever) in the Night time, & with great listlessness & inactivity during
the Day. I have been also Subject to a pain in my left Side under my Heart,
& in my Loins & to inflammations in my Eyes, Rheumatick Pains in my
Jaws neck teeth & Ears, as well as other flying pains in my body & Limbs, &
to very unsettled Nerves. –––

After having past two three Days in this Situation, I have commonly
either had recourse to an Antimonial Vomit seconded by a Gentle
Purge, or to a Strong purge alone, & have gradually been releiv’d for the
time, either by a bilious discharge Upwards, or by one downward
so very Acrimonious as to occasion a violent Scalding of Urine &
excoriation behind –– but in a few Days upon the least Cold, the same
Operation was to be gone through without any lasting Benefit.

I am inclined to impute this Disorder to a weaken’d Circulation & a
relax’d obstructed bilous habit partly occasion’d by the west Indies & partly
by having thrown myself three Months ago into a Cold Bath with the
remains of a Rush upon me which was then upon the Decline, & imme¬
diately disappeard –––

I have been once or twice during the summer troubled by a foul
Stomach unattended by the other Symptoms & always cured by a Vomit.