The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
[ID:572] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Dr Alexander Taylor (Sanders) / Regarding: Reverend Colin Gillies (of Paisley) (Patient) / 10 June 1782 / (Outgoing)
Reply 'For Mr Gillies'. Cullen believes that his varied ailments all arise from a disorder of the nervous system, and gives lengthy directions to best remedy this.
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RCPE Catalogue Number | CUL/1/1/15/55 |
Main Language | English |
Document Direction | Outgoing |
Date | 10 June 1782 |
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Letter of Introduction | No |
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Summary | Reply 'For Mr Gillies'. Cullen believes that his varied ailments all arise from a disorder of the nervous system, and gives lengthy directions to best remedy this. |
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[Case ID:1286] |
Case of the Rev. Colin Gillies who has suffered several fainting fits almost like epileptic seizures. |
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[PERS ID:1] | Author | Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) |
[PERS ID:207] | Addressee | Dr Alexander Taylor (Sanders) |
[PERS ID:1465] | Patient | Reverend Colin Gillies (of Paisley) |
[PERS ID:1] | Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary | Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) |
[PERS ID:207] | Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary | Dr Alexander Taylor (Sanders) |
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Destination of Letter | Paisley | Glasgow and West | Scotland | Europe | inferred |
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For Mr Gillies
Having attentively considered the whole of his
complaints, I am of opinion that how much these are
or have been varied they all depend upon one common
cause which is a weakness of his Nervous System
This I think depends upon original confirmation
and cannot now be entirely mended but I have
no doubt by pains and close attention to a proper
regimen and by the use of some medicines he
may be kept tolerably easy and free from any
considerable complaints and for both his regimen
and remedies I would advise as follows.
1st. An attention to Diet is particularly
necessary but it is a most difficult from the
peculiarities of Stomach and whatever I might
advise it must be corrected by these peculiarities
in Mr. Gillies. I hold both common Tea and Coffee
to be improper for him and I would advise him
[Page 2]
to take for Breakfast either Cocoa tea or a weak Cho¬
colate and I believe the former is most likely to agree
with him taking along with it what he willingly can
of his ordinary Biscuit.
At Dinner he may always take in the first
place some plain Soup with his own Biscuit or [els?]
I think he may some very well toasted bread, after that
let him take some solid food, the lighter kinds as Chicken
tender white fowl, Rabbit, Tripe, Sweet bread or
Lamb may do the best but when his Stomach is in
good plight I think he might bear some of the
stronger meats as Stewed Pidgeon and in those season
partridge or Murefowl and if he takes care that
whatever kind of meat he tries be very tender he
may possibly bear them better than he thinks of
and there is some advantage in his being able to
take some variety. Amongst other things I think
a little light white fish as Haddock, Whitane,
Flounder or Burn Trout might suit his Stomach
[Page 3]
very well. Salmond, Herring and other heavy fishes
cannot be suitable to him.
I think some solid Animal food is necessary
to Mr. Gillies but with this provision always that
he never takes a full meal of any kind but that
when his appetite is any thing sharp that he deceives
it by taking a larger proportion of Soup & bread or
after a moderate share of any light Pudding he finds
suitable to his Stomach and even with some vegetables.
These latter he cannot indeed take freely but so much
of them as he can tolerably digest are very necessary
and if he takes them while young and tender as
they severally come in Season he may digest a
portion of them tolerably well taking care always
also that they are very well boiled.
As he has not been in the habits of taking
Supper I shall not advise him to change his
manner of living in that respect but if he
chuses between Six and Seven in the Evening
[Page 4]
to take a dish of Cocoa with a bit of Biscuit it may
be better than fasting till morning.
In Drinking at Dinner the most proper draft
for Mr Gillies seems to me to be a good Porter
with two parts of water and either plain water
or Small beer seem to me unfit for him. After dinner
every day one, two, or three glasses of Wine as he
bears it I think necessary to him and Red Port
Madeira or good Sherry will probably suit
him better than any weaker bodied wines tho' it
will be always proper for him to take the strong
wines diluted with one or two parts of water.
It is very proper for Mr Gillies to be regular
in his hours of Eating or Sleeping and they seem
to me very well neglected at present. I would
not have him go sooner or later to Bed than
Ten at night but if he can soundly sleep a
little longer than 5 in the morning I think he
[Page 5]
may be the better for it and if he delays his break¬
fast till nine oClock both for the sake of bringing
that nearer to dinner and for the sake of a
longer morning ride it may be proper but
if he shall find that his late Breakfast
takes off his appetite for Dinner the time of
this may be delayed perhaps with advantage.
There is certainly nothing moe necessary to
Mr. Gillies than a good deal of Exercise and
of all others Riding on horseback is the best.
The times of employing it which Mr. Gillies
is accustomed to have hitherto been very proper
but if when the Summer weather sets in his Ride
in the middle of the day may not be so fit
it is on that account that I propose to save
his Ride in the middle of the day by a longer
one in the morning but I allow this accor¬
ding to the state of the weather to be regulated
[Page 6]
by his direction. I must only observe here that
if the Exercise which he can take at home with
the other measures I propose will not have the effect
in mending Mr. Gillies Constitution & Complaints
so much as I expect I would certainly advise
him sometime in the course of Summer or [beginning?]
of Harvest to take a Journey of three or four
weeks and the most proper manner of doing
this will be in a Single horse Chaise which he
Drives himself. I forgot above to say that when
the weather shall be such as to render a mid¬
day Ride improper it is probable that the
length of day may be such as to allow of a
Ride in the Evening and this he may therefore
take but with this caution that he should not
set out till it is but two hours after Dinner and
even then to Ride moderately. I should also
have said above that moderate walking at
[Page 7]
any time of Day is not improper for him providing
always that it is so managed as never to prove
either heating or fatiguing to him.
In all Situations it is very necessary for Mr.
Gillies to guard against Cold and for this purpose
to wear constantly a flannel Shirt next his Skin,
to be otherways warmly Cloathed and particularly
to keep his feet and legs always warm and dry
at the same time he should take care never by
any means to be much heated and therefore to
avoid being in warm Chambers or Sitting near
the fire and if former habits will allow, he
should use few bed Cloaths in the night but let
this with regard to all Cloathing that he should
never lay aside any thicker he has been accus¬
tomed to for a thinner for any consideration
of Season the changes of which in this Climate
cannot be followed with any safety.
[Page 8]
These are the particulars of Regimen with respect to
his body and the proper management of his mind is no
less necessary if possible it is to be constantly occupied
by Business, Study, or Amusements so as never to
be left vacant to much attention to his own feelings
and ailments which attention will commonly both
multiply and aggravate them. In occupying
his mind however much discretion is to be used
his application to business should be neither long
continued anxious or laborious nor exposed to
vexation from the neglect of others or accidental
disappointments and if some length of application
is necessary let it if possible be now and then,
interrupted by a walk or some little amusement.
If he takes to study let that be of an easy kind
but so far suited to his taste as to be somewhat
Engaging. Let his amusements also be suited
in the same manner and I shall only observe
that agreeable Company is the safest and surest.
[Page 9]
I thought of concluding here what I had to say on the
subject of Regimen but before I do so I think it proper
to be more explicit in one particular. After Considering
the Subject of exercise and all the circumstances of
Mr. Gillies Constitution & complaints I am now
persuaded that his taking of the most part of his
exercise in a single horse Chaise will not only be the
most effectual and Convenient but also with respect
to times and degree of exercise will be absolutely
necessary.
I now go on to speak of remedies suited to Mr.
Gillies Complaints & the first are those suited to ob¬
viate or remove the Costiveness which he is so much
affected with & which Contributes greatly to aggravate
all his Complaints. It is always very desireable
to obviate Costiveness as far as possible by diet
and if Mr. Gillies can perceive that any par¬
ticular diet has this effect upon him he should
employ it unless it seems other ways very hurtful.
[Page 10]
Let him make a discreet trial of small fruit in
their season & at other times of different vegetables
always very well boiled. If he cannot this way
find a diet that is laxative let him at least mark
what has a contrary tendency & avoid that care¬
fully.
If such attention in diet do not answer
the purpose he must have recourse to medicine
& never let Costiveness continue long at one time.
Let this be the general rule that whenever he
goes a second day without a stool he should that
night or next morning take a laxative medicine.
What this laxative should be I will not before
trial certainly determine but I dont like the
quantity of Aloetic which he takes at present
and as it is commonly necessary to employ
some variety I have on a separate paper given
different prescriptions of laxative medicines
the Leaving it to his own & Mr. Tytlers discretion
[Page 11]
to chuse what seems to Answer but only recommen¬
ding to them not to be determined by single trials
for one particular dose.
When the affair of Costiveness is properly
managed the next remedy I have to recommend
is Cold bathing and for this purpose the use of
the Bathing machine which I hope Mr. Gillies
is now sufficiently acquainted with, he may begin
with putting 10 Pints of water only into the
Cylinder and making up these Ten Pints with
two of boiling water and Eight of Cold water
taken always from the same Spring and taken
up always immediately before it is to be Em¬
ployed. After using such a preparation for two
days he may after that ↑every second day↑ withhold half a mutckin
of the boiling water till none at all is Em¬
ployed. When he has come to Employ Cold
water alone if he finds that immediately after
[Page 12]
Bathing he does not recover his heat and alacrity
it may be proper to retain still some proportion
of the boiling water as one pint of boiling to 19 pints
of the Cold for I suppose that after he has begun
to withhold a part of the boiling water that he
has gone on to increase the quantity of cold water
in the machine by a pint every day. I hope he
understands the principle and will learn to ad¬
just the temperature to his Constitution. With regard
to it I have only further to observe that for proper
Bathing the hair of his head should be Cut out
and for the first or second time his head should
be washed with cold water immediately before
he goes into the machine.
The only other remedy I have to propose
is a Chalybeat powder which I have prescribed
on a separate paper with the necessary directions
and at the same time I would have him use
[Page 13]
the Chalybeate [water?] {illeg} he carries along with
him. When he is to open a bottle of it let him have
a clean Mutckin bottle ready to receive one half of it
to be immediately well Corked and set by in a cool
place to be used next day. Of this water besides
his taking an ordinary wine glass full of it after
his dose of powder he is to take such a glass of it
twice in the forenoon about half an hour after his
breakfast and about half an hour before his
Dinner or if he does not find it disagreeable
he may take the first glass mentioned half an
hour or a quarter before breakfast. Such doses
of a wine glassfull he is to begin with but
if it shall be found to agree with him the
doses may be increased by degrees to a gill
at each time. If at any time he shall apprehend
that the water does not agree with him on
account of its coldness he may put a table spoon¬
[Page 14]
ful of boiling water into each glass of the Spaw water
please observe that when you open a bottle of the
water during the intervals of drinking it let it
be always kept close Corked.
I have now only to add that I have provided
still another medicine which is to be employed in
case of Spasms of the stomach accompanied with
pains of the back which are commonly relieved
by the breaking of wind from the Stomach. I hope
that in all such cases my medicine will give relief
but I wish it to be employed in urgent Cases only
and therefore as seldom as may be.
[Page 15]
For Mr Gillies
Take 3 ounces of best Castor Oil and an ounce of Composite Senna Tincture. Mix. Label: Laxative Oil a table spoonfull for a dose to be taken in the mnorning shaking the vial always very well before pouring out
N.B. Perhaps a larger dose may be necessary but if more
than two spoonfulls is found to be so, this medicine will
not be convenient. However it frequently happens
that tho a large dose of this medicine is at first neces¬
sary yet after using it for several times a less dose will
answer and I have known two tea spoonfulls become
sufficient when two tablespoonfulls had been at first
necessary.
With regard to this and all the other laxatives that
may be employed let it be observed that none of them
should do more than gve one easy motion and that
all farther purging is improper and therefore the doses
are to be so adjusted
[Page 16]
For Mr Gillies
Take 2 ounces of Soluble Tartar, ½ an ounce each of Spanish Sea-salt and candied Sugar, and 4 ounces each of Simple Cinnamon Water and Rosewater. Mix and strain. Label: Aperient Solution a table spoonfull or two to be taken in half a muchkin of fresh drawn cow milk whey at two draughts in the morning.
Take an ounce of Tartar Crystals, 1½ drachms of composite Jalap powder, 15 grains of grated Nutmeg, ½ an ounce of Lenitive Electuary, and enough Simple Syrup to make a thin Electuary. Label: Laxative Electuary a tea spoonfull or two for a dose in the morning.
Take a drachm of a mass of Aloetic Pills, 15 grains of Gamboge and enough Sacred Elixir to make a mass to be divided into pills of 5 grains each. Label: Laxative Pills one or two for a dose at bedtime
[Page 17]
For Mr Gillies
Take 5 grains each of prepared powdered Steel and ground Cinnamon, and 10 grains of white lump Sugar. Mix to make a powder and make in this way 14 doses. Label: Strengthening Powders one to be taken in a little currant Jelly at twelve noon and at six of the evening.
N.B. These powders are to be taken for a fortnight
only at one time but in the second week let the propor¬
tion of powdered Steel be doubled.
Take 2 ounces of Spirit of Sweet Vitriol. Label: Carminative Spirit a tea spoonfull or two to be taken in a small glass of water when the pain of the back is uneasy
1782. ––––
Diplomatic Text
For Mr Gillies
Having attentively considered the whole of his
complaints, I am of opinion that how much these are
or have been varied they all depend upon one common
cause which is a weakness of his Nervous System
This I think depends upon original confirmation
and cannot now be entirely mended but I have
no doubt by pains and close attention to a proper
regimen and by the use of some medicines he
may be kept tolerably easy and free from any
considerable complaints and for both his regimen
and remedies I would advise as follows.
1st. An attention to Diet is particularly
necessary but it is a most difficult from the
peculiarities of Stomach and whatever I might
advise it must be corrected by these peculiarities
in Mr. Gillies. I hold both common Tea and Coffee
to be improper for him and I would advise him
[Page 2]
to take for Breakfast either Cocoa tea or a weak Cho¬
colate and I believe the former is most likely to agree
with him taking along with it what he willingly can
of his ordinary Biscuit.
At Dinner he may always take in the first
place some plain Soup with his own Biscuit or [els?]
I think he may some very well toasted bread, after that
let him take some solid food, the lighter kinds as Chicken
tender white fowl, Rabbit, Tripe, Sweet bread or
Lamb may do the best but when his Stomach is in
good plight I think he might bear some of the
stronger meats as Stewed Pidgeon and in those season
partridge or Murefowl and if he takes care that
whatever kind of meat he tries be very tender he
may possibly bear them better than he thinks of
and there is some advantage in his being able to
take some variety. Amongst other things I think
a little light white fish as Haddock, Whitane,
Flounder or Burn Trout might suit his Stomach
[Page 3]
very well. Salmond, Herring and other heavy fishes
cannot be suitable to him.
I think some solid Animal food is necessary
to Mr. Gillies but with this provision always that
he never takes a full meal of any kind but that
when his appetite is any thing sharp that he deceives
it by taking a larger proportion of Soup & bread or
after a moderate share of any light Pudding he finds
suitable to his Stomach and even with some vegetables.
These latter he cannot indeed take freely but so much
of them as he can tolerably digest are very necessary
and if he takes them while young and tender as
they severally come in Season he may digest a
portion of them tolerably well taking care always
also that they are very well boiled.
As he has not been in the habits of taking
Supper I shall not advise him to change his
manner of living in that respect but if he
chuses between Six and Seven in the Evening
[Page 4]
to take a dish of Cocoa with a bit of Biscuit it may
be better than fasting till morning.
In Drinking at Dinner the most proper draft
for Mr Gillies seems to me to be a good Porter
with two parts of water and either plain water
or Small beer seem to me unfit for him. After dinner
every day one, two, or three glasses of Wine as he
bears it I think necessary to him and Red Port
Madeira or good Sherry will probably suit
him better than any weaker bodied wines tho' it
will be always proper for him to take the strong
wines diluted with one or two parts of water.
It is very proper for Mr Gillies to be regular
in his hours of Eating or Sleeping and they seem
to me very well neglected at present. I would
not have him go sooner or later to Bed than
Ten at night but if he can soundly sleep a
little longer than 5 in the morning I think he
[Page 5]
may be the better for it and if he delays his break¬
fast till nine oClock both for the sake of bringing
that nearer to dinner and for the sake of a
longer morning ride it may be proper but
if he shall find that his late Breakfast
takes off his appetite for Dinner the time of
this may be delayed perhaps with advantage.
There is certainly nothing moe necessary to
Mr. Gillies than a good deal of Exercise and
of all others Riding on horseback is the best.
The times of employing it which Mr. Gillies
is accustomed to have hitherto been very proper
but if when the Summer weather sets in his Ride
in the middle of the day may not be so fit
it is on that account that I propose to save
his Ride in the middle of the day by a longer
one in the morning but I allow this accor¬
ding to the state of the weather to be regulated
[Page 6]
by his direction. I must only observe here that
if the Exercise which he can take at home with
the other measures I propose will not have the effect
in mending Mr. Gillies Constitution & Complaints
so much as I expect I would certainly advise
him sometime in the course of Summer or [beginning?]
of Harvest to take a Journey of three or four
weeks and the most proper manner of doing
this will be in a Single horse Chaise which he
Drives himself. I forgot above to say that when
the weather shall be such as to render a mid¬
day Ride improper it is probable that the
length of day may be such as to allow of a
Ride in the Evening and this he may therefore
take but with this caution that he should not
set out till it is but two hours after Dinner and
even then to Ride moderately. I should also
have said above that moderate walking at
[Page 7]
any time of Day is not improper for him providing
always that it is so managed as never to prove
either heating or fatiguing to him.
In all Situations it is very necessary for Mr.
Gillies to guard against Cold and for this purpose
to wear constantly a flannel Shirt next his Skin,
to be otherways warmly Cloathed and particularly
to keep his feet and legs always warm and dry
at the same time he should take care never by
any means to be much heated and therefore to
avoid being in warm Chambers or Sitting near
the fire and if former habits will allow, he
should use few bed Cloaths in the night but let
this with regard to all Cloathing that he should
never lay aside any thicker he has been accus¬
tomed to for a thinner for any consideration
of Season the changes of which in this Climate
cannot be followed with any safety.
[Page 8]
These are the particulars of Regimen with respect to
his body and the proper management of his mind is no
less necessary if possible it is to be constantly occupied
by Business, Study, or Amusements so as never to
be left vacant to much attention to his own feelings
and ailments which attention will commonly both
multiply and aggravate them. In occupying
his mind however much discretion is to be used
his application to business should be neither long
continued anxious or laborious nor exposed to
vexation from the neglect of others or accidental
disappointments and if some length of application
is necessary let it if possible be now and then,
interrupted by a walk or some little amusement.
If he takes to study let that be of an easy kind
but so far suited to his taste as to be somewhat
Engaging. Let his amusements also be suited
in the same manner and I shall only observe
that agreeable Company is the safest and surest.
[Page 9]
I thought of concluding here what I had to say on the
subject of Regimen but before I do so I think it proper
to be more explicit in one particular. After Considering
the Subject of exercise and all the circumstances of
Mr. Gillies Constitution & complaints I am now
persuaded that his taking of the most part of his
exercise in a single horse Chaise will not only be the
most effectual and Convenient but also with respect
to times and degree of exercise will be absolutely
necessary.
I now go on to speak of remedies suited to Mr.
Gillies Complaints & the first are those suited to ob¬
viate or remove the Costiveness which he is so much
affected with & which Contributes greatly to aggravate
all his Complaints. It is always very desireable
to obviate Costiveness as far as possible by diet
and if Mr. Gillies can perceive that any par¬
ticular diet has this effect upon him he should
employ it unless it seems other ways very hurtful.
[Page 10]
Let him make a discreet trial of small fruit in
their season & at other times of different vegetables
always very well boiled. If he cannot this way
find a diet that is laxative let him at least mark
what has a contrary tendency & avoid that care¬
fully.
If such attention in diet do not answer
the purpose he must have recourse to medicine
& never let Costiveness continue long at one time.
Let this be the general rule that whenever he
goes a second day without a stool he should that
night or next morning take a laxative medicine.
What this laxative should be I will not before
trial certainly determine but I dont like the
quantity of Aloetic which he takes at present
and as it is commonly necessary to employ
some variety I have on a separate paper given
different prescriptions of laxative medicines
the Leaving it to his own & Mr. Tytlers discretion
[Page 11]
to chuse what seems to Answer but only recommen¬
ding to them not to be determined by single trials
for one particular dose.
When the affair of Costiveness is properly
managed the next remedy I have to recommend
is Cold bathing and for this purpose the use of
the Bathing machine which I hope Mr. Gillies
is now sufficiently acquainted with, he may begin
with putting 10 Pints of water only into the
Cylinder and making up these Ten Pints with
two of boiling water and Eight of Cold water
taken always from the same Spring and taken
up always immediately before it is to be Em¬
ployed. After using such a preparation for two
days he may after that ↑every second day↑ withhold half a mutckin
of the boiling water till none at all is Em¬
ployed. When he has come to Employ Cold
water alone if he finds that immediately after
[Page 12]
Bathing he does not recover his heat and alacrity
it may be proper to retain still some proportion
of the boiling water as one pint of boiling to 19 pints
of the Cold for I suppose that after he has begun
to withhold a part of the boiling water that he
has gone on to increase the quantity of cold water
in the machine by a pint every day. I hope he
understands the principle and will learn to ad¬
just the temperature to his Constitution. Wt. regard
to it I have only further to observe that for proper
Bathing the hair of his head should be Cut out
and for the first or second time his head should
be washed with cold water immediately before
he goes into the machine.
The only other remedy I have to propose
is a Chalybeat powder which I have prescribed
on a separate paper with the necessary directions
and at the same time I would have him use
[Page 13]
the Chalybeate [water?] {illeg} he carries along with
him. When he is to open a bottle of it let him have
a clean Mutckin bottle ready to receive one half of it
to be immediately well Corked and set by in a cool
place to be used next day. Of this water besides
his taking an ordinary wine glass full of it after
his dose of powder he is to take such a glass of it
twice in the forenoon about half an hour after his
breakfast and about half an hour before his
Dinner or if he does not find it disagreeable
he may take the first glass mentioned half an
hour or a quarter before breakfast. Such doses
of a wine glassfull he is to begin with but
if it shall be found to agree with him the
doses may be increased by degrees to a gill
at each time. If at any time he shall apprehend
that the water does not agree with him on
account of its coldness he may put a table spoon¬
[Page 14]
ful of boiling water into each glass of the Spaw water
please observe that when you open a bottle of the
water during the intervals of drinking it let it
be always kept close Corked.
I have now only to add that I have provided
still another medicine which is to be employed in
case of Spasms of the stomach accompanied with
pains of the back which are commonly relieved
by the breaking of wind from the Stomach. I hope
that in all such cases my medicine will give relief
but I wish it to be employed in urgent Cases only
and therefore as seldom as may be.
[Page 15]
For Mr Gillies
℞ Ol. Ricin. opt. ℥iij
Tinct. Senn. comp. ℥j
ℳ. Sig. Laxative Oil a table spoonfull for a dose
to be taken in the mnorning shaking the vial always
very well before pouring out
N.B. Perhaps a larger dose may be necessary but if more
than two spoonfulls is found to be so, this medicine will
not be convenient. However it frequently happens
that tho a large dose of this medicine is at first neces¬
sary yet after using it for several times a less dose will
answer and I have known two tea spoonfulls become
sufficient when two tablespoonfulls had been at first
necessary.
With regard to this and all the other laxatives that
may be employed let it be observed that none of them
should do more than gve one easy motion and that
all farther purging is improper and therefore the doses
are to be so adjusted
[Page 16]
For Mr Gillies
℞ Tartar. Solubil. ℥ij
Sal. marin. Hispan.
Sacchar. cand. @ ℥ſs
Aq. cinnam. Simpl.
–– rosar. @ ℥iv ℳ. et cola
Sig. Aperient Solution a table spoonfull or two to
be taken in half a muchkin of fresh drawn cow milk
whey at two draughts in the morning.
℞ Crystall. Tartar. ℥i
pulv. e Jalap. comp. ʒiſs
Nuc. moschat. ras. gr. XV
Elect. Lenitiv. ℥ſs
Syr. Simpl. q. s. ut f. Electuarium tenue
Sig. Laxative Electuary a tea spoonfull or two for
a dose in the morning.
℞ Mass. pil. aloetic. ʒj
Gambog. gr. XV
Elix. Sacr. q. s. ut f. massa dividenda in pil. sing. gr. V
Sig. Laxative Pills one or two for a dose at bedtime
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For Mr Gillies
℞ Limatur. Mart. ppt.
Cinnamom. pulv. @ gr. V
Sacchar. alb. duriss. gr. X
ℳ.f. pulvis et fiant h. m. dos. № XIV
Sig. Strengthening Powders one to be taken in a
little currant Jelly at twelve noon and at six of the
evening.
N.B. These powders are to be taken for a fortnight
only at one time but in the second week let the propor¬
tion of the Limatura be doubled.
℞ Spir. vitriol. dulc. ℥ij
Sig. Carminative Spirit a tea spoonfull or two to
be taken in a small glass of water when the pain of
the back is uneasy
1782. ––––
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