The Cullen Project | [ID:4386] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Dr John Mudie (Moodie) / Regarding: Mrs Henderson (Patient) / 3 March 1779 / (Outgoing)

[ID:4386] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Dr John Mudie (Moodie) / Regarding: Mrs Henderson (Patient) / 3 March 1779 / (Outgoing)

Reply, 'For Mrs Henderson'

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Field	Data
DOC ID	4386
RCPE Catalogue Number	CUL/1/1/11/124
Main Language	English
Document Direction	Outgoing
Date	3 March 1779
Annotation	None
Type	Scribal copy ( includes Casebook Entry)
Enclosure(s)	No enclosure(s)
Autopsy	No
Recipe	No
Regimen	No
Letter of Introduction	No
Case Note	No
Summary	Reply, 'For Mrs Henderson'
Manuscript Incomplete?	No
Evidence of Commercial Posting	No

Cases that this document belongs to:

Case ID	Description	Num Docs
[Case ID:855]	Case of Mrs Henderson who has a severe pain in her side and such varied symptoms that Cullen is unsure of the underlying disease.	7

Person ID	Role in document	Person
[PERS ID:1]	Author	Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:1646]	Addressee	Dr John Mudie (Moodie)
[PERS ID:2490]	Patient	Mrs Henderson
[PERS ID:1]	Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary	Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:1646]	Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary	Dr John Mudie (Moodie)

Role in document	Specific Place	Settlements / Areas	Region	Country	Global Region	Confidence
Place of Writing	Cullen's House / Mint Close	Edinburgh	Edinburgh and East	Scotland	Europe	certain
Destination of Letter		Montrose	East Highlands	Scotland	Europe	inferred

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For Mrs Henderson

Your letter today convinces me that there is nothing
nephritic in her complaints & I join in your opinion that
the disease is seated between the rectum & the neck of the
bladder.. There may be schiriosity but her feverish state,
her pain & late discharge from the rectum with the
relief that followed lead me to think that there has
been a Suppuration, & it is to be feared there may be
a return of the same kind & upon the whole a doubt¬
ful event. I am at a loss to say how these conse¬
quences are to be obviated but the mild regimen and
occasional use of gentle laxatives are on every suppo¬
sition proper. Were it not for the frequency of her
pulse I would try a slight alternative Mercurial course
but I would delay this till the Season is farther ad¬
vanced that she might use more freedom. In the
mean time I would give her some Cicuta beginning with
a small dose, increasing by degrees till you can obtain
sensible effects. But I should wish neither herself
nor her friends to know what you were employing & it
may at least fill up the time till you can determine
more clearly.

W. C.

Edinburgh March. 3. 1779.

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For Mrs Henderson

Your letter today convinces me that there is nothing
nephritic in her complaints & I join in your opinion that
the disease is seated between the rectum & the neck of the
bladder.. There may be schiriosity but her feverish state,
her pain & late discharge from the rectum with the
relief that followed lead me to think that there has
been a Suppuration, & it is to be feared there may be
a return of the same kind & upon the whole a doubt¬
ful event. I am at a loss to say how these conse¬
quences are to be obviated but the mild regimen and
occasional use of gentle laxatives are on every suppo¬
sition proper. Were it not for the frequency of her
pulse I would try a slight alternative Mercurial course
but I would delay this till the Season is farther ad¬
vanced that she might use more freedom. In the
mean time I would give her some Cicuta beginning w
a small dose, increasing by degrees till you can obtain
sensible effects. But I should wish neither herself
nor her friends to know what you were employing & it
may at least fill up the time till you can determine
more clearly.

W. C.

Edr. March. 3. 1779.

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