
The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
[ID:761] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: [ADDRESSEE UNKNOWN] / Regarding: Mrs Lamb (Patient), Miss Lamb (Lamb) (Patient), Miss Lamb (Lamb) (Patient) / 21 May 1764 / (Outgoing)
Recipes for Mrs Lamb and two of her daughters.
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Metadata
Field | Data |
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DOC ID | 761 |
RCPE Catalogue Number | CUL/1/2/29 |
Main Language | English |
Document Direction | Outgoing |
Date | 21 May 1764 |
Annotation | None |
Type | Scribal copy ( includes Casebook Entry) |
Enclosure(s) | No enclosure(s) |
Autopsy | No |
Recipe | Yes |
Regimen | No |
Letter of Introduction | No |
Case Note | No |
Summary | Recipes for Mrs Lamb and two of her daughters. |
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:232] |
Cases of Mrs Lamb and her two daughters who are prescribed a 'strengthening electuary' and various other medicines. |
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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:1203] | Patient | Miss Lamb |
[PERS ID:1204] | Patient | Miss Lamb |
[PERS ID:902] | Patient | Mrs Lamb |
[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 | Berwick-upon-Tweed (Berwick) | North-East | England | Europe | inferred |
Normalized Text
For Mrs Lamb
Take one ounce of powdered Peruvian Bark, two drachms of Green Vitriol, half an ounce of Conserve of Roses, and a sufficient quantity of Clove Syrup, and make an Electuary. Label: Strengthening Electuary, the bigness of a nutmeg to be taken two or three times a day.
Take half an ounce each of Flowers of Sulphur and Sal. Polychrest, one drachm each of [Rhubarb?], Socotrine Aloes, half an ounce of Spanish Soap, and a sufficient quantity of White Syrup. Make an Electuary. Label: The Laxative Electuary, the bigness of a nutmeg to be taken two or three times a day
Take one scruple of Camphor, ten drops of mucilaginous Gum Tragacanth, and one scruple of moistened Breadcrumbs. Mix. Make into a mass, then add one quarter of a grain of Opium, then divide into eight pills. Label: The Anodyne Pills, one, two or three to be taken in the Fits of Colic
21 May
1764
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For Mrs Lamb's Youngest Daughter
Use a hip bath two or three times every week in the morning. [Before prayers, covering (lining?) the inside of the empty bath with a loose cloth.?]
Take half a drachm each of Asafoetida, Aloes, and Spanish Soap, and a sufficient quantity of White Syrup. Make a mass and divide into pills of five grains each. Label: Aperient Pills, one, two or three to be taken every other night. Take daily an hour before dinner [in the permitted?] quantity {illeg} [and make?] a Roborant Electuary. as set-out in the recipe for the mother.
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For Mrs Lambs Eldest Daughter
Take two scruples each of Asafoetida and Socotrine Aloes, one scruple of Calomel, and a sufficent quantity of mucilaginous Gum Tragacanth. Make into a mass and divide into single pills of five grains each. Label: Aperient, two or three to be taken at bedtime once a week while she takes the salt water and twice or three times a week when that is laid aside.
Diplomatic Text
For Mrs Lamb
℞ Cort. Peruv. Pulv ℥i
Sal. Martis ʒii
Conserv. Rosar ℥ſs
Syr. Caryophillor. q. s. ut f. Electuarium
Signa. Strengthening Electuary the bigness of a
nutmeg to be taken two or three times a day
℞ Flor. Sulphur
Sal. Polychrest ad ℥ſs
[Pulv. Rh. el.?]
Aloes Socotrin ad ʒi
Sapon Hispan. ℥ſs
Syr. Alb. q. s. ut f. Electuar.
Signa The laxative Electuary the bigness of a
nutmeg to be taken at bedtime as occasion requires
℞ Camphor ℈i
Mucilag. G. Tragacanth gtt X
Mic. Pan. humectat ℈i
ℳ S. A. ut f. massa dividenda in Pil. № viij
quibus singulis addatur Opii gr ¼
S. The Anodyne Pills one two or three
to be taken in the Fits of Cholic
21 May
1764
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For Mrs Lamb's Youngest Daughter
Bis vel ter quavis Sophmana utatur Semicupio
Diebus Vacuis Mane precentur artus inferiores
pannis laneis
℞ Asafoetid
Aloes
Sapon. Hispan. ad ʒſs
Syr. alb. q. s. ut f. massa dividenda in
pil. Singul. gr. v
S. Aperient Pills one two or three to be taken
every other night
Capeat quotidie hora ante prandium
Magnitud. [lice.?] M. Elect Roborant. pro
matre praescript.
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For Mrs Lambs Eldest Daughter
℞ Assafoetid
Aloes Socotrin @ ℈ij
Calomel ℈j
Mucilag. G. Tragacanth q. s. ut f.
massa dividenda in Pil Sing. gr. v
S. Aperient Pills two or three to be
taken at bedtime once a week while
she takes the salt water & twice a
week or three times when that is laid
aside
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