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The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

 

[ID:1110] From: Mrs Anne Stewart / To: Mrs Sarah Blacklock (Johnston(e)) / Regarding: Mrs Anne Stewart (Patient) / 17 January 1775 / (Incoming)

Letter from Anne Stewart, Abbey Green (Lesmahagow), relating her own case of 'a soar Breast I have got' since breastfeeding her baby two years before. Letter addressed to Mrs [Sarah] Blacklock, requesting that she read it to Cullen. The sender is a friend of Mrs Blacklock's sister, Miss Johnston and she also sends compliments to Sarah's husband, Dr Thomas Blacklock, the blind poet and scholar who, with his wife, ran a boarding house in Edinburgh mainly patronised by medical students. There is a note in another hand (almost certainly that of Mrs Blacklock's) commenting on Anne Stewart's case.

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FieldData
DOC ID 1110
RCPE Catalogue Number CUL/1/2/212
Main Language English
Document Direction Incoming
Date17 January 1775
Annotation None
TypeAuthorial original
Enclosure(s) No enclosure(s)
Autopsy No
Recipe No
Regimen No
Letter of Introduction No
Case Note No
Summary Letter from Anne Stewart, Abbey Green (Lesmahagow), relating her own case of 'a soar Breast I have got' since breastfeeding her baby two years before. Letter addressed to Mrs [Sarah] Blacklock, requesting that she read it to Cullen. The sender is a friend of Mrs Blacklock's sister, Miss Johnston and she also sends compliments to Sarah's husband, Dr Thomas Blacklock, the blind poet and scholar who, with his wife, ran a boarding house in Edinburgh mainly patronised by medical students. There is a note in another hand (almost certainly that of Mrs Blacklock's) commenting on Anne Stewart's case.
Manuscript Incomplete? No
Evidence of Commercial Posting No

Case

Cases that this document belongs to:

Case ID Description Num Docs
[Case ID:481]
Case of Mrs Anne Stewart who as a 'soar Breast' from nursing and a spot on her hand which she fears is scurvy.
2


People linked to this document

Person IDRole in documentPerson
[PERS ID:66]AuthorMrs Anne Stewart
[PERS ID:687]AddresseeMrs Sarah Blacklock
[PERS ID:66]PatientMrs Anne Stewart
[PERS ID:1]Other Physician / SurgeonDr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:842]Patient's Relative / Spouse / FriendLady Catherine
[PERS ID:843]Patient's Relative / Spouse / FriendMr Stewart
[PERS ID:231]OtherMiss Johnston (Johnstone)
[PERS ID:844]OtherReverend Thomas Blacklock (Dr Blacklock)
[PERS ID:687]Supplemental AuthorMrs Sarah Blacklock

Places linked to this document

Role in document Specific Place Settlements / Areas Region Country Global Region Confidence
Place of Writing Lesmahagow (Abbey Green / Abbay Green) Glasgow and West Scotland Europe certain
Destination of Letter Edinburgh Edinburgh and East Scotland Europe certain

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Abbay Green January 17 -
1775

Dear Madam


As I am Accquainted with no
body at Edinburgh that I could write to upon the
subject that I am going to trouble you with,
but my former Accquaintance with you, & my
intimcy with your Sister Miss Johnston,
makes me presume to trouble you, & beg you
will read Doctor Cullen the following Accoun↑t↑
of a soar Breast I have got, it is very Neigh
two years since it first turned soar. First of
all it Bealed upon the side of my Breast a
little from the Nipple, but healed soon up.
About six weeks after my Layingin I inoculated
the Child
& his mouth being soar he Could
not suck which obliged me to milk my Breast
& that & the Childs soar mouth when he
could suck any fretted the Nipple so much
that I was then obliged to give up Nursing,



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it healed very soon after I gave up Nursing,
& continued very well for some time, after
which it grew tender round the Nipple & ↑has↑had
a rawness & dampness upon it ever since,
Excepting for a few days or some times for a
week it will be quite well & dray which I
think is owing to my washing it with Lime
water
, it drays it & a thin dray skin groes on
it at which time it turns very itchey & the
thin dray skin comes of it after which it
will be damp and raw for some time to¬
gether, it gives me no pain nor is there any
hardness about it, I have had a spot upon
one of my hands for this some little time
very much like the spot upon my Breast,
I would be glad how soon I could have the
Doctors Answer as I would wish to doe some
thing immediately as it has been of so longe
a standing. Mr Stewart joins with me


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in offering kind Compliments to Mr Blacklock
and you.

and am Dear Madam
your much obliged Servant
Anne Stewart


PS
inclosed is a Guinea which you will give
the Doctor


Lady Catherine is of opinion that
Mrs Stewart is too low ↑in her Diet↑ & that it is
something of the scurvy she has had
a Child since her breast began but
did not attempt nursing I fancy she is
with Child again




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Mrs Blacklock


Anne Stewart
from Mrs Blacklock
January 17, 1775
Vol. II. p. 65.

Diplomatic Text

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Abbay Green Janry 17 -
1775

Dear Madam


As I am Accquainted with no
body at Ednr that I could write to upon the
subject that I am going to trouble you with,
but my former Accquaintance with you, & my
intimcy with your Sister Miss Johnston,
makes me presume to trouble you, & beg you
will read Doctor Cullen the following Accoun↑t↑
of a soar Breast I have got, it is very Neigh
two years since it first turned soar. First of
all it Bealed upon the side of my Breast a
little from the Nipple, but healed soon up.
About six weeks after my Layingin I inoculated
the Child
& his mouth being soar he Could
not suck which obliged me to milk my Breast
& that & the Childs soar mouth when he
could suck any fretted the Nipple so much
that I was then obliged to give up Nursing,



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it healed very soon after I gave up Nursing,
& continued very well for some time, after
which it grew tender round the Nipple & ↑has↑had
a rawness & dampness upon it ever since,
Excepting for a few days or some times for a
week it will be quite well & dray which I
think is owing to my washing it with Lime
water
, it drays it & a thin dray skin groes on
it at which time it turns very itchey & the
thin dray skin comes of it after which it
will be damp and raw for some time to¬
gether, it gives me no pain nor is there any
hardness about it, I have had a spot upon
one of my hands for this some little time
very much like the spot upon my Breast,
I would be glad how soon I could have the
Doctors Answer as I would wish to doe some
thing immediately as it has been of so longe
a standing. Mr Stewart joins with me


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in offering kind Compts to Mr Blacklock
and you.

and am Dear Madam
your much obliged Servt
Anne Stewart


PS
inclosed is a Guinea which you will give
the Doctor


Lady Catherine is of opinion that
Mrs Stewart is too low ↑in her Diet↑ & that it is
something of the scurvy she has had
a Child since her breast began but
did not attempt nursing I fancy she is
with Child again




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Mrs Blacklock


Anne Stewart
from Mrs Blacklock
Janry 17, 1775
Vol. II. p. 65.

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