The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
[ID:804] From: Dr Alexander Wemyss (of Pitkenny) / To: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / Regarding: Miss Elizabeth Lindsay (Betty; Lindesay) (Patient) / 27 December 1769 / (Incoming)
Letter from Alexander Wemyss on the case of Miss Betty Lindesay, who was 'seiz'd almost instantaneously with exquisite pain in the Hypochondria' the previous July, and has suffered from pains in the abdomen and vomiting green bile since, as well as 'a pretty large hard tumour in one of her Breasts'.
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Metadata
Field | Data |
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DOC ID | 804 |
RCPE Catalogue Number | CUL/1/2/73 |
Main Language | English |
Document Direction | Incoming |
Date | 27 December 1769 |
Annotation | None |
Type | Authorial original |
Enclosure(s) | No enclosure(s) |
Autopsy | No |
Recipe | No |
Regimen | No |
Letter of Introduction | No |
Case Note | No |
Summary | Letter from Alexander Wemyss on the case of Miss Betty Lindesay, who was 'seiz'd almost instantaneously with exquisite pain in the Hypochondria' the previous July, and has suffered from pains in the abdomen and vomiting green bile since, as well as 'a pretty large hard tumour in one of her Breasts'. |
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:105] |
Case of Miss Betty Lindesay [Lindsay] who has severe hypochondriacal pains. |
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People linked to this document
Person ID | Role in document | Person |
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[PERS ID:325] | Author | Dr Alexander Wemyss (of Pitkenny) |
[PERS ID:1] | Addressee | Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) |
[PERS ID:39] | Patient | Miss Elizabeth Lindsay (Betty; Lindesay) |
[PERS ID:325] | Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary | Dr Alexander Wemyss (of Pitkenny) |
Places linked to this document
Role in document | Specific Place | Settlements / Areas | Region | Country | Global Region | Confidence |
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Place of Writing | Kirkcaldy | Edinburgh and East | Scotland | Europe | inferred | |
Destination of Letter | Edinburgh | Edinburgh and East | Scotland | Europe | inferred |
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The Case of Miss Betty Lindesay
About the month of July last, she was seiz'd
almost instantaneously with exquisite pain
in the Hypochondria, especially the right side
which afterwards communicate to the Abdomen
& soon had pains thro' the rest of her body, much
in the Extremeties imitating the Rheumatism
but without inflammation or swellings of
the joints, & shifting from place to place with
more & less violence, attended with frequent
belchings of wind, restlessness, anxiety, & other
Symptoms common in the Hysteric Disease,
with want of apetite, sometimes vomitings, cost¬
ive, & the pain violent &; long fix'd in the
Regio Hepatis.
After a Course of Aromaticks, Gums, bark
steel, opiates, Tincture of Sacred Elixir Solutions, & some
Topical Applications, etc. she found but little
benefit from all these.
Her present situation, the pain of her right side
is now almost gone & also pretty easy through the
other parts, but complains more of her left side
& as she describes it, like a weight at the bottom
of her Stomach, especially when the Bile regurgitates
in to her Stomach, providing green bilious vomitings
as often as it gathers in any quantity, becomes very
sick, with a languid slow pulse, & then she is seiz'd
with a windy rumbling noise in the abdomen, which
both herself & others may hear, & then she throws
up the green bilious [trash?], with pain, difficulty,
sweatings, & waste of Strength, and tho' she gets
vomits, she seldom or never throws up the Bile
by them, but a clear glutinous matter, which also
collects itself in her Stomach, & till reliev'd by that
mean, loaths every thing- She renders but little
Urine, high colour'd, soon subsides a thick sediment
with a Colliquative oily Scum on the Top.
there is also a pretty large hard tumor in one of
her Breasts, without pain or any apparent Inflammati¬
on, if there is any thing similar in the other viscera
is not so easily discoverable.
She is quite free of Headack, fever, or drought
her Lungs perfectly sound, & has the menses regular¬
ly in quantity, colour & duration.
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She has begun to take Saponaceous with mild
ponderose Medicines, Opiates at night, and
Laxatives, or Injections when necessary, but as
the tryall has been so short can say nothing of
their Effects yet, only her Stomach does not throx
them up
Diplomatic Text
The Case of Miss Betty Lindesay
About the month of July last, she was seiz'd
almost instantaneously with exquisite pain
in the Hypochondria, especially the right side
which afterwards communicate to the Abdomen
& soon had pains thro' the rest of her body, much
in the Extremeties imitating the Rheumatism
but without inflammation or swellings of
the joints, & shifting from place to place with
more & less violence, attended with frequent
belchings of wind, restlessness, anxiety, & other
Symptoms common in the Hysteric Disease,
with want of apetite, sometimes vomitings, cost¬
ive, & the pain violent &; long fix'd in the
Regio Hepatis.
After a Course of Aromaticks, Gums, bark
steel, opiates, Tinct: Sacr: Elix Solutis, & some
Topical Applications, etc. she found but little
benefit from all these.
Her present situation, the pain of her right side
is now almost gone & also pretty easy thro' the
other parts, but complains more of her left side
& as she describes it, like a weight at the bottom
of her Stomach, especially when the Bile regurgitates
in to her Stomach, providing green bilious vomitings
as often as it gathers in any quantity, becomes very
sick, with a languid slow pulse, & then she is seiz'd
with a windy rumbling noise in the abdomen, which
both herself & others may hear, & then she throws
up the green bilious [trash?], with pain, difficulty,
sweatings, & waste of Strength, and tho' she gets
vomits, she seldom or never throws up the Bile
by them, but a clear glutinous matter, which also
collects itself in her Stomach, & till reliev'd by that
mean, loaths every thing- She renders but little
Urine, high colour'd, soon subsides a thick sediment
with a Colliquative oily Scum on the Top.
there is also a pretty large hard tumor in one of
her Breasts, without pain or any apparent Inflammati¬
on, if there is any thing similar in the other viscera
is not so easily discoverable.
She is quite free of Headack, fever, or drought
her Lungs perfectly sound, & has the menses regular¬
ly in quantity, colour & duration.
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She has begun to take Saponaceous with mild
ponderose Medicines, Opiates at night, and
Laxatives, or Injections when necessary, but as
the tryall has been so short can say nothing of
their Effects yet, only her Stomach does not throx
them up
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