The Cullen Project | [ID:5861] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Mr William Ingham / Regarding: Mr Tweeddell (Tweedale) (Patient), Miss Blacket (Patient) / 19 July 1789 / (Outgoing)

[ID:5861] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Mr William Ingham / Regarding: Mr Tweeddell (Tweedale) (Patient), Miss Blacket (Patient) / 19 July 1789 / (Outgoing)

Reply, 'Miss Blacket'. Cullen writes the letter concerning Miss Blacket 'lay unanswered longer than we wished, but it has now been made and I hope is come to your hand'.

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Field	Data
DOC ID	5861
RCPE Catalogue Number	CUL/1/1/21/132
Main Language	English
Document Direction	Outgoing
Date	19 July 1789
Annotation	None
Type	Machine copy
Enclosure(s)	No enclosure(s)
Autopsy	No
Recipe	No
Regimen	Yes
Letter of Introduction	No
Case Note	No
Summary	Reply, 'Miss Blacket'. Cullen writes the letter concerning Miss Blacket 'lay unanswered longer than we wished, but it has now been made and I hope is come to your hand'.
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:2554]	Case of Miss Blacket only known from Cullen's brief apology for his late reply.	1

People linked to this document

Person ID	Role in document	Person
[PERS ID:1]	Author	Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:82]	Addressee	Mr William Ingham
[PERS ID:4549]	Patient	Mr Tweeddell (Tweedale)
[PERS ID:5819]	Patient	Miss Blacket
[PERS ID:82]	Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary	Mr William Ingham
[PERS ID:1]	Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary	Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:5818]	Other Physician / Surgeon	Dr Black

Places linked to this document

Role in document	Specific Place	Settlements / Areas	Region	Country	Global Region	Confidence
Place of Writing		Edinburgh	Edinburgh and East	Scotland	Europe	certain
Destination of Letter		Newcastle upon Tyne	North-East	England	Europe	inferred

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Miss Blacket

Dear Sir

By both Dr Black and I being
almost constantly out of town, your letter
concerning Miss Blacket lay unanswered
longer than we wished, but it has now
been made and I hope is come to your
hand and it now only remains for me
to say something with respect to Mr.
Tweedale.

I always apprehended that his ail¬
ment might prove obstinate, and now
after the trial of the warm oil and
Electricity I have more reason to
think so. I have however the same
notion that I had from the beginning
of the ailments being the effect of [Rheu¬?]
matism, and therefore readily [apreciate?]
his proposal of a perpetual blister
on the inside of the humerous, and as

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a constant drain is in those cases one of the
most effectual remedies, if the blister
should not discharge freely, or be very
troublesome I would advise a Pea issue
to be put in a little lower down in the
same arm.

Wishing you heartily success I
am as always with the utmost regard

Dear Sir,
Your most Obedient Servant

William Cullen

Edinburgh 19th. July
1789