The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
[ID:872] From: Mr N Halkerston / To: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / Regarding: Mr N Halkerston (Patient) / 25 January 1774 / (Incoming)
Letter from Mr Halkerston, regarding his own case which is attributed to nervous weakness'.
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Metadata
| Field | Data |
|---|---|
| DOC ID | 872 |
| RCPE Catalogue Number | CUL/1/2/138 |
| Main Language | English |
| Document Direction | Incoming |
| Date | 25 January 1774 |
| 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 Mr Halkerston, regarding his own case which is attributed to nervous weakness'. |
| Manuscript Incomplete? | No |
| Evidence of Commercial Posting | No |
Case
Cases that this document belongs to:
| Case ID | Description | Num Docs |
|---|---|---|
| [Case ID:22] |
Case of Mr Halkerson, diagnosed with a 'weakness of his Nervous System'. |
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People linked to this document
| Person ID | Role in document | Person |
|---|---|---|
| [PERS ID:392] | Author | Mr N Halkerston |
| [PERS ID:1] | Addressee | Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) |
| [PERS ID:392] | Patient | Mr N Halkerston |
| [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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Destination of Letter | Edinburgh | Edinburgh and East | Scotland | Europe | inferred | |
| Mentioned / Other | Seville | Spain | Spain | Europe | certain |
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Pardon Dear Doctor my giving you this trouble
which I do with a view to save you a greater - This motive must be my apology
knowing the value of your precious time, and the inestimable consequence of it,
distribution to your patients, especially such of them as may be Dropsical, Cachectic
Cancerous or Scrophulous - How happy had it been for me to have faln into
your hands twenty years sooner, when I was Cachectic and Dropsical and where
it [became?] a work of many years to my Physicians, I need not [say?] to work an alteration
but even to make the smallest impression upon that state for the better, & has left
me quite shatter'd ever since
Remember Doctor I pretend not here to speak as a Physician: but I beg you
will allow that upwards of twenty years attention and sad experience may enable
a Man, if he has any Rational powers at all, to make some observation, to form
some opinion, and even perhaps to permit some hint, not unworthy the Notice
of his Physician
Reflecting on what you said yesterday That you alter the whole mass of
Blood in a month or six weeks time, gives me the greatest joy to assume you
with certainty thou your process may be very short with me - It is only to alter
the state of my Blood so as that it shall need no more of that acrid Ichor to my
Haemorrhoids, and indeed to all the Glandsof my organization, where it has more than once
pointed at Cancerous or scrophulous symptoms - That it shall deposit no more of that
acrid, stimulating, Glair and fowlness upon the common shoar of the Guts, where it
sticks, loads, twitches, and convulses their motions, interrupting the perystaltic motion, Dige¬
stion and every secretion - I can assume you of a certainty that you will find
that where you have done the above, the Nerves will come about of themselves
Give me leave only further to suggest from what I know of my own Constitution, thou
it is necessary, your alteratives be not heating, astringent, stimulating, or acrid - but
rather Mild, Corroborative, Anodyne and Aperient - I conclude with begging
you will be particular and full in prescribing the Regimen you would have me to
observe at Seville, and especially here to guard against Relaxation in as hot a Climate
and I Remain Dear Doctor
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Doctor Cullen
Mr Halkerston Case of
with the answer
Diplomatic Text
Pardon Dr Doctor my giving you this trouble
which I do with a view to save you a greater - This motive must be my apology
knowing the value of your precious time, and the inestimable consequence of it,
distribution to your patients, especially such of them as may be Dropsical, Cachectic
Cancerous or Scrophulous - How happy had it been for me to have faln into
your hands twenty years sooner, when I was Cachectic and Dropsical and where
it [became?] a work of many years to my Physicians, I need not [say?] to work an alteration
but even to make the smallest impression upon that state for the better, & has left
me quite shatter'd ever since
Remember Doctor I pretend not here to speak as a Physician: but I beg you
will allow that upwards of twenty years attention and sad experience may enable
a Man, if he has any Rational powers at all, to make some observation, to form
some opinion, and even perhaps to permit some hint, not unworthy the Notice
of his Physician
Reflecting on what you said yesterday That you alter the whole mass of
Blood in a month or six weeks time, gives me the greatest joy to assume you
with certainty thou your process may be very short with me - It is only to alter
the state of my Blood so as that it shall need no more of that acrid Ichor to my
Haemorrhoids, and indeed to all the Glandsof my organization, where it has more than once
pointed at Cancerous or scrophulous symptoms - That it shall deposit no more of that
acrid, stimulating, Glair and fowlness upon the common shoar of the Guts, where it
sticks, loads, twitches, and convulses their motions, interrupting the perystaltic motion, Dige¬
stion and every secretion - I can assume you of a certainty that you will find
that where you have done the above, the Nerves will come about of themselves
Give me leave only further to suggest from what I know of my own Constitution, thou
it is necessary, your alteratives be not heating, astringent, stimulating, or acrid - but
rather Mild, Corroborative, Anodyne and Aperient - I conclude with begging
you will be particular and full in prescribing the Regimen you would have me to
observe at Seville, and especially here to guard against Relaxation in as hot a Climate
and I Remain Dr Doctor
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Doctor Cullen
Mr Halkerston Case of
with the answer
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