The Cullen Project | [ID:992] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Dr George Hamilton / Regarding: Miss Isabella? Agnew (of Lochnaw) (Patient) / 22 July 1780 / (Outgoing)

[ID:992] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Dr George Hamilton / Regarding: Miss Isabella? Agnew (of Lochnaw) (Patient) / 22 July 1780 / (Outgoing)

Reply, 'For Miss Agnew', addressed to Dr George Hamilton.

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Field	Data
DOC ID	992
RCPE Catalogue Number	CUL/1/1/13/47
Main Language	English
Document Direction	Outgoing
Date	22 July 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 Miss Agnew', addressed to Dr George Hamilton.
Manuscript Incomplete?	No
Evidence of Commercial Posting	No

Case

Cases that this document belongs to:

Case ID	Description	Num Docs
[Case ID:888]	Case of Miss Agnew (of Lochnaw), who is advised on regimen over several years; by 1780 she is weak and has a cough (Cullen's mention of the fate of her siblings implies he suspects consumption).	5

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Person ID	Role in document	Person
[PERS ID:1]	Author	Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:258]	Addressee	Dr George Hamilton
[PERS ID:791]	Patient	Miss Isabella? Agnew (of Lochnaw)
[PERS ID:1]	Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary	Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:258]	Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary	Dr George Hamilton

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	Lochnaw Castle	Stranraer	Borders	Scotland	Europe	inferred

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For Miss Agnew.

Go the the country at some distance; for the sake of the journey.
Travel in a carriage with the windows up or down as it is cold
& windy or warm & calm. Fore windows are better for letting
down than side ones.

Her day's journeys should be moderate avoiding cold mornings
evenings or the middle of hot days. Thirty miles will be enough
& a little more or less according to convenience of accommodation &c.

When settled in the country she should take gentle ex¬
excise every day. Safest in a carriage but best on horseback.
In ordinary weather she may take it in forenoon but if the
weather be hot, in the morning & evening.

Much in the fresh air but much walking, either fast
or uphill or long at a time, hurtful, and especially avoid
being heated by it.

Guard against cold. Never lay aside customary clo¬
thing. Against September put a flannel shift next her skin
& wear it the rest of the season & winter. Avoid the
damp & colds of Evening, keep her feet & legs always warm
&dry & therefore in the Country she should never walk about

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but in pretty thick shoes.

Diet of milk & vegetables, grain & ripe fruit.
Drink toast water, plain water, or with a small proportion
of milk, whey, fresh buttermilk; no wine or malt liquor.

Two days before she sets out, let a little blood be taken
from her arm & the day after this, a gentle vomit. If in
the country her appetite falls off & symptoms of indigestion
appear a vomit may be used & in case of pain of the breast
or side to any degree, take a little more blood.

Continue the issue in her back. If it be difficult to
keep it open, heal it up & put another elsewhere.

Remove costiveness by the Electuary advised below.

Take an ounce of Crystal Tartar, half-an-ounce of powdered compound of Jallapa and half-a-ounce of Lenitive Electuary with a sufficent quantity of Simple Syrup to make a Lenitive Electuary or Lochoch [Linctus].

Take a scruple of Balsam of Tolu, an drachm of refined white sugar and slowly thicken by adding two drachms of Spermicetti and and half-an-ounce of lump sugar; blend together well [etc *** ?], adding a drachm of Powdered Elecampagne root, blend all well together as before, adding an ounce of licorice. Mix. all together carefully and to kept aired in an open glass jar. Label: Pectoral powder, a teaspoonful in a little water gruel every night at bed time.

W. C.

Edinburgh 22. July 1780 ----

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[Page 1]
For Miss Agnew.

Her day's journeys should be moderate avoiding cold mornings
evenings or the middle of hot days. Thirty miles will be enough
& a little more or less according to convenience of accommodation &c.

Much in the fresh air but much walking, either fast
or uphill or long at a time, hurtful, and especially avoid
being heated by it.

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but in pretty thick shoes.

Diet of milk & vegetables, grain & ripe fruit.
Drink toast water, plain water, or with a small proportion
of milk, whey, fresh buttermilk; no wine or malt liquor.

Continue the issue in her back. If it be difficult to
keep it open, heal it up & put another elsewhere.

Remove costiveness by the Electuary advised below.

℞ Crystall. Tart. ℥i Pulv. e jal. comp. ℥ifs Elect. lenit. ℥fs
Syr. simpl. q.s. ut f. Elect. Ten. sive Lochoch.
S. Laxative Electuary; a teaspoonful in the morngs..

℞ Bals. Tolut ℈i Sacch. alb. duriss. ʒi Terito simul in
pulv. ten. d. adde. Sperm. aet. ʒij Sacch. caud. ℥fs. Lento iterum
bene [&c enique ?] adde Pulv. enul. camp. ʒi ---- glycrrh. ℥i
M. omnia accurated et serventer in vase viteo aris patuli.
S. Pectoral powder: a teaspoonful in a little water gruel every
night at bed time.

W. C.

Edbr. 22. July 1780 ----

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