The Cullen Project | [ID:657] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Miss Margaret Ferguson (Fergusson) / Regarding: Miss Margaret Ferguson (Fergusson) (Patient) / 4 November 1782 / (Outgoing)

[ID:657] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Miss Margaret Ferguson (Fergusson) / Regarding: Miss Margaret Ferguson (Fergusson) (Patient) / 4 November 1782 / (Outgoing)

Letter to Miss M. Ferguson, in which Cullen cautions her that he would have been better able to advise her if he had seen her in person or if a surgeon had related her case to him. Enclosed recipe on paper apart mentioned but not copied. Destination of letter, Dunfermline, inferred from later letters.

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Field	Data
DOC ID	657
RCPE Catalogue Number	CUL/1/1/15/143
Main Language	English
Document Direction	Outgoing
Date	4 November 1782
Annotation	None
Type	Machine copy
Enclosure(s)	Enclosure(s) mentioned, but missing
Autopsy	No
Recipe	No
Regimen	No
Letter of Introduction	No
Case Note	No
Summary	Letter to Miss M. Ferguson, in which Cullen cautions her that he would have been better able to advise her if he had seen her in person or if a surgeon had related her case to him. Enclosed recipe on paper apart mentioned but not copied. Destination of letter, Dunfermline, inferred from later letters.
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:1678]	Case of Miss Margaret Ferguson who is being treated for an 'eruption' on her face for which she is employing an ointment and decoction.	8

People linked to this document

Person ID	Role in document	Person
[PERS ID:1]	Author	Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:3340]	Addressee	Miss Margaret Ferguson (Fergusson)
[PERS ID:3340]	Patient	Miss Margaret Ferguson (Fergusson)
[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		Dunfermline	Edinburgh and East	Scotland	Europe	inferred

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Miss M. Ferguson

Madam

I am favoured with yours and Shall
advise you as well as I can but I could have done it {illeg}
if either I had Seen your Self or ↑if↑ a Surgeon had descri[bed]
your case and told me what remedies had been already employd.

In the mean ↑time↑ I can venture to advise the remedy pre¬
scribed on the other page, and after you have employed it for a
week or two let me know the effects and I Shall advise what
may be further necessary. But either then or sooner I
would wish to have an account of your case to the purpose
above mentioned from any Surgeon or physician you may
have advised with. I am

Madam
Your most obedient servant

William Cullen

Edinburgh 4th November
1782

I should have told you above that the
Medicine I have ordered may make you a
little Sick and Squeamish and it is right it Should do so. If it does
not Sicken you at all you should increase the dose but if it
Sickens you very much you may diminish it.

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Miss M. Ferguson

Madam

Madam
Your most obedient servant

William Cullen

Edr. 4th Novr.
1782

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