The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
[ID:1885] From: Mr George M'Culloch (Maculloch, Macullock) / To: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / Regarding: Mr George M'Culloch (Maculloch, Macullock) (Patient) / 21 July 1780 / (Incoming)
Letter from George McCullock [Macculloch; Macullock], concerning his own case.
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Metadata
| Field | Data |
|---|---|
| DOC ID | 1885 |
| RCPE Catalogue Number | CUL/1/2/964 |
| Main Language | English |
| Document Direction | Incoming |
| Date | 21 July 1780 |
| Annotation | None |
| Type | Authorial original |
| Enclosure(s) | No enclosure(s) |
| Autopsy | No |
| Recipe | No |
| Regimen | No |
| Letter of Introduction | No |
| Case Note | No |
| Summary | Letter from George McCullock [Macculloch; Macullock], concerning his own case. |
| Manuscript Incomplete? | No |
| Evidence of Commercial Posting | No |
Case
Cases that this document belongs to:
| Case ID | Description | Num Docs |
|---|---|---|
| [Case ID:1241] |
Case of Mr George Maculloch [Macculloch, MaCullock] who attributes his current languorous complaints to sexual 'infatuation' but which Cullen describes as 'a weak state of nerves and therefore of stomach'. |
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People linked to this document
| Person ID | Role in document | Person |
|---|---|---|
| [PERS ID:990] | Author | Mr George M'Culloch (Maculloch, Macullock) |
| [PERS ID:1] | Addressee | Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) |
| [PERS ID:990] | Patient | Mr George M'Culloch (Maculloch, Macullock) |
| [PERS ID:1] | Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary | Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) |
| [PERS ID:991] | Other | Mr Pirie ( in The Cowgate, Edinburgh) |
Places linked to this document
| Role in document | Specific Place | Settlements / Areas | Region | Country | Global Region | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Place of Writing | Mr Piries, opposite to the old Post office, Cowgate | Edinburgh | Edinburgh and East | Scotland | Europe | inferred |
| Destination of Letter | Edinburgh | Edinburgh and East | Scotland | Europe | inferred |
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Tho not of your acquaintance, yet knowing it will
be sufficient that you are made acquainted with my si¬
tuation, and that I need no longer hope for relief from
any other Quarter, I have taken the freedom to trouble
you with the present application, and to lay this state of
my condition before you --
I was originally of a strong and very vi¬
gorous constitution- at the age of 12 or 13 I was ge¬
nerally thought stronger than most Boys of that
Age. - At 13 or 14 I was unhappily plunged (through
bad example & ignorance of the sin & danger) into
that infatuated state out of which I never could [Col¬
lect?] resolution enough to extricate myself till about
2 years ago (being then about the age of 17 years)
when the fatal effects of my intemperance begun to
appear threatening. - It was then I was
first afflicted with a lowness of spirits, accompanied
with the most disagreeable symptoms, such as
difficulty of Breathing, Weight and Swiming
in my head &[cet?] - but had even then at Intervals
my former spirits - a short while after
renouncing [these?] my former abandoned habits
I first discovered a loss of semen in the
night, to which I then paid little attention
thinking it would not be attended with any
bad consequence, but which has now reduced me
to the most exhausted and disordered State,
which I still impute to the continuance of the
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cause. The symptoms I at present feel
are stillness often Langour & weakness thro my
whole Frame, weight and swiming in my head, sore
Eyes, having an excessive heat in them, and sometimes
covered with a sort of [wild scurff?] also an excessive
and disagreeable Heat at times in my Face - at other
times in my hands attended with such shaking as
to prevent my writing any (at least agreeably)
tho it is upon that my fortune mostly depends {illeg}
and which prevents my being at this time so ge¬
nerous as I could wish to one upon whom I
rest my sole hope. - I have been this
particular that you may have it in your power
to form a just notion of my situation - and
that you may plainly inform me what hope
of cure remains, or whether I should continue in Town
(having come here only about 6 weeks ago) or re¬
turn to the country. - I shall expect a few
lines in answer to this pretty soon, at least as soon as
convenient & more than a few lines is unnecessary
as I [shall?] (propose) waiting upon you at anytime
you appoint in your [Letter?] - [send?] direct to me, at "Mr
" Piries opposite to the old Post office Cowgate
your most obedient servant & humble supplicant
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To Doctor Cullen
✍Mr G. MacullockJuly 1780
XI p. 48
Diplomatic Text
Tho not of your acquaintance, yet knowing it will
be sufficient that you are made acquainted with my si¬
tuation, and that I need no longer hope for relief from
any other Quarter, I have taken the freedom to trouble
you with the present application, and to lay this state of
my condition before you --
I was originally of a strong and very vi¬
gorous constitution- at the age of 12 or 13 I was ge¬
nerally thought stronger than most Boys of that
Age. - At 13 or 14 I was unhappily plunged (through
bad example & ignorance of the sin & danger) into
that infatuated state out of which I never could [Col¬
lect?] resolution enough to extricate myself till about
2 years ago (being then about the age of 17 ys)
when the fatal effects of my intemperance begun to
appear threatening. - It was then I was
first afflicted with a lowness of spirits, accompanied
with the most disagreeable symptoms, such as
difficulty of Breathing, Weight and Swiming
in my head &[cet?] - but had even then at Intervals
my former spirits - a short while after
renouncing [these?] my former abandoned habits
I first discovered a loss of semen in the
night, to which I then paid little attention
thinking it would not be attended with any
bad consequence, but which has now reduced me
to the most exhausted and disordered State,
which I still impute to the continuance of the
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cause. The symptoms I at present feel
are stillness often Langour & weakness thro my
whole Frame, weight and swiming in my head, sore
Eyes, having an excessive heat in them, and sometimes
covered with a sort of [wild scurff?] also an excessive
and disagreeable Heat at times in my Face - at other
times in my hands attended with such shaking as
to prevent my writing any (at least agreeably)
tho it is upon that my fortune mostly depends {illeg}
and which prevents my being at this time so ge¬
nerous as I could wish to one upon whom I
rest my sole hope. - I have been this
particular that you may have it in your power
to form a just notion of my situation - and
that you may plainly inform me what hope
of cure remains, or whether I shd continue in Town
(having come here only abt 6 weeks ago) or re¬
turn to the country. - I shall expect a few
lines in ansr to this pretty soon, at least as soon as
convent & more than a few lines is unnecessary
as I [shall?] (propose) waiting upon you at anytime
you appoint in your [Lr?] - [send?] direct to me, at "Mr
" Piries opposite to the old Post office Cowgate
your most obt servt & hule supplicant
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To Doctor Cullen
✍Mr G. MacullockJuly 1780
XI p. 48
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