
The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
[ID:5793] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Mr Gilbert Laurie / Regarding: Miss Laurie (Patient) / 7 March 1789 / (Outgoing)
Reply 'For Miss Laurie'
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Metadata
Field | Data |
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DOC ID | 5793 |
RCPE Catalogue Number | CUL/1/1/21/65 |
Main Language | English |
Document Direction | Outgoing |
Date | 7 March 1789 |
Annotation | None |
Type | Machine scribal copy |
Enclosure(s) | Enclosure(s) present |
Autopsy | No |
Recipe | Yes |
Regimen | No |
Letter of Introduction | No |
Case Note | No |
Summary | Reply 'For Miss Laurie' |
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:1743] |
Case of Miss Laurie who is poorly with a feverish cough, especially at night, and a menstrual irregularity. |
3 |
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:2240] | Addressee | Mr Gilbert Laurie |
[PERS ID:3305] | Patient | Miss Laurie |
[PERS ID:588] | Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary | Mr Alexander Wood |
[PERS ID:1] | Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary | Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) |
[PERS ID:108] | Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary | Dr Colin Drummond |
[PERS ID:588] | Supplemental Author | Mr Alexander Wood |
Places linked to this document
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 | Polmont | Mid Scotland | Scotland | Europe | inferred | |
Therapeutic Recommendation | Bristol | South-West | England | Europe | certain |
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For Miss Laurie
After attending diligently to her com¬
plaints for sometime past, we are clearly of opinion
that there are nothing more promising, than
her engaging in a Journey for some length of
way, and we would have that journey directed
to Bristol where she may probably receive
benefit from the use of the hot well.
In the conduct of this journey she is to
guard carefully against cold and fatigue. For
the first She has been in use to guard herself
sufficiently in her Carriage, and dare say She
will continue to do so, but our anxiety is about
her Lodging at night, in which, care should
be taken to provide her in a dry and warm
lodging, and for her linen she should carry
along with her the linen that she has been
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used to at home, {illeg} even that should be aired
and dried ↑every night↑ before She goes into it, and particular
care must be taken that the bed, she is to be
upon and the binding blanket upon it, be {illeg}
very dry, and to secure this, another very
dry blanket may be put under her bed linen
Her days Journey should be especially
at first rather short than long, suiting {illeg}
as well as possible to the best accommodation
that can be got. She should every day set
out upon her journey by ten or Eleven oClock
so that the whole of her journey may [be?] {illeg}
before she takes dinner, and we would {illeg}
that she should not at any time travel
after dinner, and that this should be
expected by going out more early in the mor¬
ning, by her taking a little rest, and a second
breakfast by the way, rather than by her
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travelling after her solid meal, and at any rate
matters should be so contrived, that she
never travels late in the afternoon.
Her diet upon the road should be much
the same as she has used of late at home,
only that she cannot have the Asses milk
and Butter milk that made part of her
diet here. To supply both these let some good
Oatmeal be carried along with her, and twice a
day let some thin water gruel be made of it
and with a portion of this, let an equal por¬
tion of fresh Cows milk be mixed, and let
the whole milk be sweetened with sugar, to the
sweetness or rather a little more, than that
of common Asses milk. Of this mixed milk
let her take as much as she has come to
take of Asses milk, and at the same time
of the morning, and let the same mixed milk
be employed in place of the Butter milk
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She has used to take in the Evening.
For her drinking at other times or at
Meals Plain water is the best, but upon
occasion of any fatigue, she may take a glass
of Lisbon or Sherry with two parts of
water, and every day at dinner She may
take the glass of wine she has used to take
In the way of medicine, she is to
continue the linctus she has been taking
for sometime past, and upon the road She
is to take two of the Pectoral Pills Pre¬
scribed on the inclosed paper. These she
is to take till she comes to Bristol where
she is to be left to the good judgement
of Doctor Drummond which we both
very much esteem
Edinburgh 7th. March
1789
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For Miss Laurie
Take three drachms of liquorice Extract and half a drachm each of Balsam of Tolu and white Sugar. Into the extract pour in small, concise amounts of hot water, of a sufficient quantity to soften and bruise it into a pulp, then add the Balsam and Sugar, first ground into a thin powder, and with a sufficient quantity of water to make a mass to be divided into four single grain pills. Label: Pectoral pills, two to be taken every night at bedtime.
7th. March
1789
Diplomatic Text
For Miss Laurie
After attending diligently to her com¬
plaints for sometime past, we are clearly of opinion
that there are nothing more promising, than
her engaging in a Journey for some length of
way, and we would have that journey directed
to Bristol where she may probably receive
benefit from the use of the hot well.
In the conduct of this journey she is to
guard carefully against cold and fatigue. For
the first She has been in use to guard herself
sufficiently in her Carriage, and dare say She
will continue to do so, but our anxiety is about
her Lodging at night, in which, care should
be taken to provide her in a dry and warm
lodging, and for her linen she should carry
along with her the linen that she has been
[Page 2]
used to at home, {illeg} even that should be aired
and dried ↑every night↑ before She goes into it, and particular
care must be taken that the bed, she is to be
upon and the binding blanket upon it, be {illeg}
very dry, and to secure this, another very
dry blanket may be put under her bed linen
Her days Journey should be especially
at first rather short than long, suiting {illeg}
as well as possible to the best accommodation
that can be got. She should every day set
out upon her journey by ten or Eleven oClock
so that the whole of her journey may [be?] {illeg}
before she takes dinner, and we would {illeg}
that she should not at any time travel
after dinner, and that this should be
expected by going out more early in the mor¬
ning, by her taking a little rest, and a second
breakfast by the way, rather than by her
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travelling after her solid meal, and at any rate
matters should be so contrived, that she
never travels late in the afternoon.
Her diet upon the road should be much
the same as she has used of late at home,
only that she cannot have the Asses milk
and Butter milk that made part of her
diet here. To supply both these let some good
Oatmeal be carried along with her, and twice a
day let some thin water gruel be made of it
and with a portion of this, let an equal por¬
tion of fresh Cows milk be mixed, and let
the whole milk be sweetened with sugar, to the
sweetness or rather a little more, than that
of common Asses milk. Of this mixed milk
let her take as much as she has come to
take of Asses milk, and at the same time
of the morning, and let the same mixed milk
be employed in place of the Butter milk
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She has used to take in the Evening.
For her drinking at other times or at
Meals Plain water is the best, but upon
occasion of any fatigue, she may take a glass
of Lisbon or Sherry with two parts of
water, and every day at dinner She may
take the glass of wine she has used to take
In the way of medicine, she is to
continue the linctus she has been taking
for sometime past, and upon the road She
is to take two of the Pectoral Pills Pre¬
scribed on the inclosed paper. These she
is to take till she comes to Bristol where
she is to be left to the good judgement
of Doctor Drummond which we both
very much esteem
Edinr. 7th. March
1789
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For Miss Laurie
℞ Extract. glycyrrh. ʒiij
Balsam. Tolutan.
Sacchar. alb. @ ʒſs
Extracto in frustula conciso affunde
aquæ fervent. q. s. ut mollescat
et in pulpam contundatur cui
adde Balsamum et Saccharum
prius in pulverem tenuem
trita et cum aquæ q. s. f. massa
dividenda in pil. sing. gr. IV
Sig. Pectoral pills two to be
taken every night at bedtime
7th. March
1789
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