The Cullen Project | [ID:271] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Dr Walter Stirling / Regarding: Miss Anne Gascoigne (Hamilton, Countess of Haddington or Lady Haddington (1786-96)) (Patient) / 17 February 1782 / (Outgoing)

[ID:271] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Dr Walter Stirling / Regarding: Miss Anne Gascoigne (Hamilton, Countess of Haddington or Lady Haddington (1786-96)) (Patient) / 17 February 1782 / (Outgoing)

Reply, with further discussion of Miss [Anne] Gascoigne's case with Dr Walter Stirling, whose initial is given incorrectly in the header; includes some suggested directions. The last few lines on the first page are illegible because of problems in the mechanical copying process. Anne Gascoigne was subsequently Countess of Haddington.

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Field	Data
DOC ID	271
RCPE Catalogue Number	CUL/1/1/14/160
Main Language	English
Document Direction	Outgoing
Date	17 February 1782
Annotation	None
Type	Machine copy
Enclosure(s)	No enclosure(s)
Autopsy	No
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Letter of Introduction	No
Case Note	No
Summary	Reply, with further discussion of Miss [Anne] Gascoigne's case with Dr Walter Stirling, whose initial is given incorrectly in the header; includes some suggested directions. The last few lines on the first page are illegible because of problems in the mechanical copying process. Anne Gascoigne was subsequently Countess of Haddington.
Manuscript Incomplete?	No
Evidence of Commercial Posting	No

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Cases that this document belongs to:

Case ID	Description	Num Docs
[Case ID:10]	Case of Miss Anne Gascoigne (Hamilton, later Countess of Haddington), who has chest and 'rheumatic' complaints.	5

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Person ID	Role in document	Person
[PERS ID:1]	Author	Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:2153]	Addressee	Dr Walter Stirling
[PERS ID:2594]	Patient	Miss Anne Gascoigne (Hamilton, Countess of Haddington or Lady Haddington (1786-96))
[PERS ID:2153]	Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary	Dr Walter Stirling
[PERS ID:1]	Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary	Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)

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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		Stirling	Mid Scotland	Scotland	Europe	inferred

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Dr A Stirling Concerning Miss Gascoigne

Dear Sir

It was certainly proper in you who
had seen Miss Gascoignes ailments from the beginning
to think them of the rheumatic kind and I have no doubt
of their being so still tho by some further application ↑of cold↑ the
cough is ↑now↑ joined to the former rheumatism. However as I said
in my last the remedies and regimen to be employed are much
the same in both views but I think it seems necessary now
to employ them very seriously. The bleeding you proposed for
yesterday is certainly proper and I hope you have executed it
with some benefit to her. If the pains continue to affect the
right Shoulder and arm and especially if they happen to fix
any where about the chest I would think a blister extremely
[proper?]. [Tho she does not {illeg} I would then be
{illeg} to {illeg} draught {illeg}
{illeg} doses?] {illeg}
{illeg}

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obstinacy of the disease to try a dose of Dovers powder. In
the same case of obstinacy I must leave it to your discretion
to repeat the bleeding and blistering and only with respect to
the latter I must give you my opinion that one fresh blister
will go much farther than a long time of an Issue. With respect
to regimen I need say nothing more than I have said before, only
I would say ↑now↑ that I would not soon advise her going abroad.

I am with the utmost regard

Dear Doctor
your most obedient servant

William Cullen

Edinburgh 17th February
1782.