The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
[ID:4278] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Mr John Love / Regarding: Mr John Love (Patient) / 15 July 1778 / (Outgoing)
Reply, 'Mr John Love. Silk manufacturer - Paisley'
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Metadata
| Field | Data |
|---|---|
| DOC ID | 4278 |
| RCPE Catalogue Number | CUL/1/1/11/16 |
| Main Language | English |
| Document Direction | Outgoing |
| Date | 15 July 1778 |
| 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, 'Mr John Love. Silk manufacturer - Paisley' |
| Manuscript Incomplete? | No |
| Evidence of Commercial Posting | No |
Case
Cases that this document belongs to:
| Case ID | Description | Num Docs |
|---|---|---|
| [Case ID:786] |
Case of John Love, a silk manufacturer, who suffers from low spirits, costiveness and various other symptoms, including sexual related anxieties, which he discusses with Cullen in person. |
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People linked to this document
| Person ID | Role in document | Person |
|---|---|---|
| [PERS ID:1] | Author | Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) |
| [PERS ID:2357] | Addressee | Mr John Love |
| [PERS ID:2357] | Patient | Mr John Love |
| [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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Place of Writing | Cullen's House / Mint Close | Edinburgh | Edinburgh and East | Scotland | Europe | certain |
| Destination of Letter | Paisley | Glasgow and West | Scotland | Europe | inferred |
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Mr John Love. Silk manufacturer - Paisley
Your complaints are of an obstinate nature: especially
when they have been allowed to remain long.
Employ the shower bath. every morning soon after
getting out of bed; if you have no sweat upon you. In
this case, put on dry linen & be an hour our of bed before
you take the bath. Employ well water.
After breakfast, ride on horseback, gently for two or
three hours. In hot weather, avoid midday. But besides
your morning ride take also one an hour or two in the evening
About a month hence take a journey on horseback, of two
or three weeks steadily pursued.
Your diet should be neither full nor low. Take no In¬
dian tea or coffee at breakfast but take Cocoa tea.
At dinner take some broth but plain soup or a strong
beef tea is more proper than broth of barley, roasts, or
greens. After your broth you should take some solid animal
food of any plain kind you like, avoiding fat or heavy meats.
Do not make a full meal of animal food but take pud¬
ding & vegetables. If these last open your belly you
may take them freely but I doubt much if this will
be the case & if not, take vegetables more sparingly. No
animal food at supper not even an egg. If vegetables
do prove laxative you may take them at supper & espe¬
cially Spinach but if they do not prove evidently so,
let them alone at supper & instead take the
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following. Take 2 parts of thin water gruel & one part
fresh cow milk. Sweeten this mixture, with brown sugar &
use it as you would plain milk; with bread, rices barley,
oatmeal, porrige or sowers.
Your drink should be sherry water with at most a
4th part sherry in it. No strong drinks, nor malt liquor
except a little porter. Instead of wine & water you may
sometimes take porter & water for your ordinary drink.
You should go to bed bedtimes at night & should not lye
long abed in the morning. When you find yourself awake
about midnight you would do well to get out of bed for half
an hour or an hour. By this I have known many persons
avoid uneasy dreams. Lye on a firm matrass & use very
few bed cloaths.
Close application to business is improper but total
want if it is as much so; & you will be the better of
some moderate occupation and attention.
Avoid cold. & therefore all damp & moisture. In winter
be warmly cloathed & then a flannel shirt next your
skin will be usefull.
Take one drachm of Camphire and half a drachm of Salt [vitt.?]With some drops of Alchool added and you will reduce this into powder. Then, add one drachm of Gentian's Extract and a sufficient quantity of gum Arabic required to make a mass to be divided into equal measures of five grains. Label as Nervous Pills. Let him take every 2 or 3 nights at bedtime a dose of three pills.
Take one drachm of Aloe, twelve grains of Gamboge, one scruple of Gentian's Extract, fifteen grains of Polychrest Salts and a sufficient quantity of simple Syrup required to make a mass to be divided from which obtain thirty pills, half a drachm which. Label them as Laxative Pills. One, two or three to be taken at bedtime when occasion requires.
Edinburgh July. 25. 1778.
W.C.
Diplomatic Text
Mr John Love. Silk manufacturer - Paisley
Your complaints are of an obstinate nature: especially
when they have been allowed to remain long.
Employ the shower bath. every morning soon after
getting out of bed; if you have no sweat upon you. In
this case, put on dry linen & be an hour our of bed before
you take the bath. Employ well water.
After breakfast, ride on horseback, gently for two or
three hours. In hot weather, avoid midday. But besides
your morning ride take also one an hour or two in the eveng
About a month hence take a journey on horseback, of two
or three weeks steadily pursued.
Your diet should be neither full nor low. Take no In¬
dian tea or coffee at breakfast but take Cocoa tea.
At dinner take some broth but plain soup or a strong
beef tea is more proper than broth of barley, roasts, or
greens. After your broth you should take some solid animal
food of any plain kind you like, avoiding fat or heavy meats.
Do not make a full meal of animal food but take pud¬
ding & vegetables. If these last open your belly you
may take them freely but I doubt much if this will
be the case & if not, take vegetables more sparingly. No
animal food at supper not even an egg. If vegetables
do prove laxative you may take them at supper & espe¬
cially Spinach but if they do not prove evidently so,
let them alone at supper & instead take the
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following. Take 2 parts of thin water gruel & one part
fresh cow milk. Sweeten this mixture, with brown sugar &
use it as you would plain milk; with bread, rices barley,
oatmeal, porrige or sowers.
Your drink should be sherry water with at most a
4th part sherry in it. No strong drinks, nor malt liquor
except a little porter. Instead of wine & water you may
sometimes take porter & water for your ordinary drink.
You should go to bed bedtimes at night & should not lye
long abed in the morning. When you find yourself awake
about midnight you would do well to get out of bed for half
an hour or an hour. By this I have known many persons
avoid uneasy dreams. Lye on a firm matrass & use very
few bed cloaths.
Close application to business is improper but total
want if it is as much so; & you will be the better of
some moderate occupation and attention.
Avoid cold. & therefore all damp & moisture. In winter
be warmly cloathed & then a flannel shirt next your
skin will be usefull.
℞ Camphor. ʒj. Sal. [vitt.?] ʒss. Adjectis Spt. vin. rectigt.
guttulis aliquot terito in pulv. deinde adde Extr. gentian. ʒj
g. Arab. q. s. ut f. m. div. in pil. s. gr. V.
S. Nervous pills three for a dose every 2 or 3 night at bedtime.
℞ Aloes socot. ʒj Gambog. gr. XII. Extr. gent. ℈ij
Sal. Polychr. gr. XV. Syr. simpl. q. s. a. mass. div.
ex cujus sing. ʒss. formentur Pilulæ XXX
S. Laxative Pills one, two, or three at bedtime when occa¬
sion requires.
Edinr July. 25. 1778.
W.C.
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