
The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
[ID:4560] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Captain Robertson / Regarding: Captain Robertson (Patient) / 3 January 1780 / (Outgoing)
Reply 'For Capt. Robertson'
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Metadata
Field | Data |
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DOC ID | 4560 |
RCPE Catalogue Number | CUL/1/1/12/127 |
Main Language | English |
Document Direction | Outgoing |
Date | 3 January 1780 |
Annotation | None |
Type | Authorial original |
Enclosure(s) | No enclosure(s) |
Autopsy | No |
Recipe | Yes |
Regimen | No |
Letter of Introduction | No |
Case Note | No |
Summary | Reply 'For Capt. Robertson' |
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:797] |
Case of Captain John Robertson who has a 'chronic catarrh'. |
5 |
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:2587] | Addressee | Captain Robertson |
[PERS ID:2587] | Patient | Captain Robertson |
[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 |
Destination of Letter | Isle of Wight | London and South-East | England | Europe | inferred |
Normalized Text
For Capt. Robertson. from p. 112.
I am sorry you do not mention the state of your
former complaints; & considering the season and
your accommodation I should not be surprised if
you have not mended. I can only take notice of
the new symptoms of looseness for which I have
sent you a prescription. The looseness renders
the milk diet more necessary than ever.
Take half a drachm each of pomegranate flowers and dried red rose, a drachm of ground cinnamon, half an ounce of Gum Arabic. Leave to set in ten ounces of boiling water for three hours; to the strained liquid add forty drops of Laudanum and an ounce of syrup of diacodus. Mix and label Strengthening mixture; a teasponful or two after every loose stool. If this remedy is not passed as diarrhea, take thirty drops every {illeg} [evening?], more {illeg} as occasion demands. I would like to completely avoid the common usage of Rhubarb or any other cathartic.
Diplomatic Text
For Capt. Robertson. from p. 112.
I am sorry you do not mention the state of your
former complaints; & considering the season and
your accommodation I should not be surprised if
you have not mended. I can only take notice of
the new symptoms of looseness for which I have
sent you a prescription. The looseness renders
the milk diet more necessary than ever.
℞ Felor. balaust. --- ros. rubr. siccat. @ Ʒſs
Cinnam. contus. Ʒj Gumm. Arab. ℥ſs.
Aq. bull.t ℥x - Digere horas 3. et liquor colato
adde Tinct. Theb. gtt XL. Syr. diacod. ℥j
ℳ. S. Strengthening ℳ. a tablespoonful or two
after every loose stool
Si huic remedio non cesserit Diarrhoea, capiat quovis
vesp. haust. Pereger. ex Tinct. Theb. g.tt xxx,
plus verminus pro re nata.
Vellem omnino ut caveat a frequenti usu Rha¬
barbari vel [cujusvis?] alius cathartici.
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