
The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
[ID:4082] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Dr / Regarding: Mr William Simson (Patient) / 11 June 1777 / (Outgoing)
Reply 'For Mr William Simson'
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Metadata
Field | Data |
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DOC ID | 4082 |
RCPE Catalogue Number | CUL/1/1/9/55 |
Main Language | English |
Document Direction | Outgoing |
Date | 11 June 1777 |
Annotation | None |
Type | Scribal copy ( includes Casebook Entry) |
Enclosure(s) | No enclosure(s) |
Autopsy | No |
Recipe | Yes |
Regimen | Yes |
Letter of Introduction | No |
Case Note | No |
Summary | Reply 'For Mr William Simson' |
Manuscript Incomplete? | No |
Evidence of Commercial Posting | No |
Case
Cases that this document belongs to:
Case ID | Description | Num Docs |
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[Case ID:896] |
Case of Mr William Simson who is directed over regimen and prescribed an aperient for an unstated complaint. |
1 |
People linked to this document
Person ID | Role in document | Person |
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[PERS ID:1] | Author | Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) |
[PERS ID:1964] | Addressee | Dr |
[PERS ID:1963] | Patient | Mr William Simson |
[PERS ID:1964] | Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary | Dr |
[PERS ID:1] | Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary | Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) |
Places linked to this document
Role in document | Specific Place | Settlements / Areas | Region | Country | Global Region | Confidence |
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Place of Writing | Cullen's House / Mint Close | Edinburgh | Edinburgh and East | Scotland | Europe | certain |
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For Mr William Simson --
At breakfast & supper take some milkmeat --
If plain milk dont digest well mix it with an equal part
of water gruel & sweetened with sugar -- Avoid tea & coffee.
2. At diner he may take plain-meat as beef mutton veal
lamb or white fowl, but not his whole meal of them.
He should take some broth before, & pudding or pancake
after instead of these latter, some garden things, but
sparingly ---- Avoid baked & fried meats, all salted
meats & high seasoning. May at times take a little
boiled haddoc or whiting, but sparingly, & avoid all other -
3. Drink plain water, but if this increase the E¬
ruptions on his face as it does in some people, he may
have small beer, if it be not verry windy on his stomack.
Every day at dinner he may have ½ a muchkin of good
porter, or instead of it, 2 or 3 glasses of Port or Toddy.
but never so much as to heat. -- No strong drink of
any kind at night, but if any after the milkmeat, it
should be Toddy ---
4. Fresh air & gentle exercise. Walk moderately, but
be frequently on horseback --
5. Every morning take 2 tablespoonfuls of the Aper. Solut.
mix it with ½ a muchkin of spring water; take this at
2 or 3 draughts; ½ an hour between each; so as to finish it
½ an hour or an hour before breakfast. --- Every night
at bed time take a tea spoonful of the Diaphor. Mix in a
little water. -- Every third day in the morning rub the inflamed
parts of hislegs with the Detergent, allowing them to dry before the
application of the Cerate.
Take two ounces of soluble Tartar, half an ounce of polycrest Salts, and add four ounces of both cinnamon Water and spring water. Dissolve and strain. Label it Aperient Solution.
Take one and a half ounces of Antimonial wine and two drachms of aromatic tincture. Mix and label Diaphoretic Mixture.
Take two pounds of spring water and one ounce of Tincture of Mars (as in Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia). Mix them and label detergent water.
Edinburgh June. 11. 1777.
W.C.
Diplomatic Text
For Mr William Simson --
At breakf. & supper take some milkmeat --
If plain milk dont digest well mix it w an equal part
of water gruel & sweetened w sugar -- Avoid tea & coffee.
2. At diner he may take plain-meat as beef mutton veal
lamb or white fowl, but not his whole meal of them.
He should take some broth before, & pudding or pancake
after instead of these latter, some garden things, but
sparingly ---- Avoid baked & fried meats, all salted
meats & high seasoning. May at times take a little
boiled haddoc or whiting, but sparingly, & avoid all other -
3. Drink plain water, but if this increase the E¬
ruptions on his face as it does in some people, he may
have small beer, if it be not verry windy on his stomack.
Every day at dinner he may have ½ a muchkin of good
porter, or instead of it, 2 or 3 glasses of Port or Toddy.
but never so much as to heat. -- No strong drink of
any kind at night, but if any after the milkmeat, it
should be Toddy ---
4. Fresh air & gentle exercise. Walk moderately, but
be frequently on horseback --
5. Every morn take 2 tablespoonf. of ye Aper. Solut.
mix it w ½ a muchkin of spring water; take this at
2 or 3 draughts; ½ an hour between each; so as to finish it
½ an hour or an hour before breakfast. --- Every night
at bed time take a tea spoonful of the Diaphor. ℳ. in a
little water. -- Every third day in the morng rub the inflamed
parts of hislegs w ye Detergent, allowg them to dry before the
application of the Cerate.
℞ Tart. solub. ℥ij Sal. polychr. ℥ſs
Aq. cinnam. simpl. -- font. @ ℥iv Solve et cola. Aperient Solution.
℞ Vin. Antimon. ℥iss. Tinct. Arom. ʒij ℳ. Diaphoretic Mixture.
℞ Aq. font. ℔ij Tinct. mart. Ph. Ed. ℥j - ℳ. S. Detergent
water.
Edinr. June. 11. 1777.
W.C.
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