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

 

[ID:4899] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Mr William Home / Regarding: Miss (Patient) / 21 August 1784 / (Outgoing)

Reply, for 'Mr. Wm. Home C[oncerning] a Lady'. Cullen is disappointed his prescriptions have not yielded the desired effect, though acknowledges such cases often prove obstinate. He includes recipes for a strengthening electuary and strengthening drops.

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FieldData
DOC ID 4899
RCPE Catalogue Number CUL/1/1/17/95
Main Language English
Document Direction Outgoing
Date21 August 1784
Annotation None
TypeMachine scribal copy
Enclosure(s) No enclosure(s)
Autopsy No
Recipe Yes
Regimen No
Letter of Introduction No
Case Note No
Summary Reply, for 'Mr. Wm. Home C[oncerning] a Lady'. Cullen is disappointed his prescriptions have not yielded the desired effect, though acknowledges such cases often prove obstinate. He includes recipes for a strengthening electuary and strengthening drops.
Manuscript Incomplete? No
Evidence of Commercial Posting No

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[Case ID:1672]
Case of an unnamed, unmarried female patient, between thirty and forty years of age, with menstrual problems, as reported by William Home. By 1784 she has developed lumbago.
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[PERS ID:1]AuthorDr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:2139]AddresseeMr William Home
[PERS ID:4915]PatientMiss
[PERS ID:1]Patient's Physician / Surgeon / ApothecaryDr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:2139]Patient's Physician / Surgeon / ApothecaryMr William Home

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Mr. Wm. Home Concerning a Lady

Dear Sir


Yours of the 17th. came here only yesterday
when I was in the Country.


I am heartily sorry to find that your Patient
has not got so much benefit by my Prescriptions
as I wished and expected but I have been too much
acquainted with the obstinacy of such ailments to
be much surprised in a Case that had such causes
producing it. We must not however despair and
with the Regimen and Cold bathing I formerly
advised I will propose another remedy to you
which I have prescribed on other Page. At the
same time I would entirely give up the use of the
Balsam. I can say no more at present but
cannot conclude without observing that the obsti¬
nacy of such Cases is as often owing to the
neglect of Regimen as to the impotency of



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medicine. There are some articles of Regimen
upon which I cannot be very explicit but which
however is among the most difficult to be
observed. Sapienti sat est. I am with great
regard


Sir
Your most Obedient Servant

William Cullen -

Edinburgh 21st. August
1784



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For Miss

Take one ounce of powder of Peruvian bark, half an ounce each of Alum and Kino Gum, two drachms of Cinnamon, one and a half ounces of Conserve of roses and a sufficient quantity of Simple Syrup in order to make an Electuary. Label: Strengthening Electuary; the bigness of a Nutmeg to be taken twice a day washing it down with a glass of water with twenty drops of the following.


W.C.

21 August
1784

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Mr. Wm. Home C. a Lady

Dear Sir


Yours of the 17th. came here only yesterday
when I was in the Country.


I am heartily sorry to find that your Patient
has not got so much benefit by my Prescriptions
as I wished and expected but I have been too much
acquainted with the obstinacy of such ailments to
be much surprised in a Case that had such causes
producing it. We must not however despair and
with the Regimen and Cold bathing I formerly
advised I will propose another remedy to you
which I have prescribed on other Page. At the
same time I would entirely give up the use of the
Balsam. I can say no more at present but
cannot conclude without observing that the obsti¬
nacy of such Cases is as often owing to the
neglect of Regimen as to the impotency of



[Page 2]

medicine. There are some articles of Regimen
upon which I cannot be very explicit but which
however is among the most difficult to be
observed. Sapienti sat est. I am with great
regard


Sir
Your most Obedient Servant

William Cullen -

Edinr. 21st. August
1784



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For Miss


pulv. cort. Peruv. ℥j
Alumin. rup.
Gum. Kino @ ℥ſs
Cinnamom. ʒij
Cons. rosar. ℥jſs
Syr. Simpl. q. s. ut f. S. A. Electuarium
Sig. Strengthening Electuary the bigness of a
Nutmeg to be taken twice a day washing
it down with a glass of water with twenty
drops of the following


W.C.

21 Aug.
1784

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