The Cullen Project | [ID:950] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: [ADDRESSEE UNKNOWN] / Regarding: Mr Thomas French (Patient) / 15 April 1780 / (Outgoing)

[ID:950] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: [ADDRESSEE UNKNOWN] / Regarding: Mr Thomas French (Patient) / 15 April 1780 / (Outgoing)

Reply 'For Mr French'. Cullen believes him to have 'Dyspepsia which may be purely idiopathic'

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Field	Data
DOC ID	950
RCPE Catalogue Number	CUL/1/1/13/5
Main Language	English
Document Direction	Outgoing
Date	15 April 1780
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	Reply 'For Mr French'. Cullen believes him to have 'Dyspepsia which may be purely idiopathic'
Manuscript Incomplete?	No
Evidence of Commercial Posting	No

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Case ID	Description	Num Docs
[Case ID:1225]	Case of Thomas French who has a stomach complaint.	2

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Person ID	Role in document	Person
[PERS ID:1]	Author	Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:4023]	Patient	Mr Thomas French
[PERS ID:1]	Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary	Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)

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Place of Writing	Cullen's House / Mint Close	Edinburgh	Edinburgh and East	Scotland	Europe	inferred
Destination of Letter		Glasgow	Glasgow and West	Scotland	Europe	inferred

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For Mr French

Dyspepsia which may be purely idiopathic but it is not
easy to be certain of this & your suspicions have been very
proper. I can find no symptoms of obstructed viscera & the
only suspicion I have is that of Gout. At all events the
tone of the stomach is to be restored & you have employed
proper remedies but it seems that his Stomach will not bear
Vegetable bitters & therefore I will not advise Columbo
Jesuit's bean, or even the Bark tincture tho his bears it.
The only Tonic I can advise is a chalybeate for which I
have given a formula below. It is proposed in a small
dose but if his stomach bears it you may go on increasing
it to ten grains for a dose as it is noways a disagreeable
medicine I hope he will admit & continue the use of it
for some time. Wash down every glass dose of it with
a glass of Hartfell Spa which on many accounts I prefer
to Pyrmont. His regimen you have ordered very properly
especially his riding. Tobacco is certainly hurtful but
cannot be laid aside only by degree. Such a disease is
generally tedious & hardly to be cured by medicines & I
advise chiefly a journey on horseback in a carriage
continued steady for weeks.

Take 3 grains, prepared Limatura Iron, 5 grains of powdered Peruvian Bark, 10 grains of Refined Sugar. Mix. Make into 15 Powders for emergencies etc. Label: Stomachic Powder one thrice a day in a little currant jelly washing it down with a glass of Hartfell Spa.

W.C.

Edinburgh 15. April 1780

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For Mr French

℞ Limat. Mart. ppt. gr.iij Pulv. cort. Peruv. gr. V.
Sacch. alb. gr. X M f. pulvis et f: h: m: &c No. XIV
S. Stomachic powd. one thrice a day in a little currant
jelly washing it down with a glass of Hartfell Spa.

W.C.

Edinr. 15. April 1780

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