Count | Case ID | Case Name |
1 | Case 4 | Case of Mr Alexander Spalding Gordon who has a venereal infection in 1775; in 1776 he has a swollen ankle and toe assumed to be gouty; and in 1784 he is suffering from the after-effects of an accidental pistol wound. |
2 | Case 9 | Case of Dr Thomas Mutter who has suffered 'a palsy' (stroke). |
3 | Case 30 | Case of an unnamed patient, a 'young Lady 23 years old' suffering from sleeplessness, fits of breathlessness, sickness and muscle spasms. |
4 | Case 67 | Case of Mrs Morison (Morrison), diagnosed with a 'uterine' weakness. |
5 | Case 136 | Case of James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll who is thought to have a gouty knee and stomach. |
6 | Case 173 | Case of the elderly Mr Dickson who dies after being weakened by influenza. |
7 | Case 174 | Case of Mrs Blackstock who has various symptoms including painful legs and 'glandular' eruptions for which she has been given mercury. She is diagnosed as having 'dropsy' on the brain. |
8 | Case 392 | Cases communicated by Charles Broughton, a London surgeon, who sends Cullen letters detailing the successful use of his proprietary ointment that is supposed to cure tumours. |
9 | Case 406 | Case of unnamed patient with case 'an uncommon Itching & Pain' in the nose'. |
10 | Case 436 | Case of the teenage Miss Murray of Broughton who has a log-standing pulmonary complaint and eventually starts to spit blood. |
11 | Case 447 | Case of the brother of Dr John Gilchrist who is being treated for a scrophulous condition with Charles Broughton's ointment. |
12 | Case 517 | Case of Mr Hugh Lawson who has developed pains in his joints, possibly gout or nephritic. His condition baffles local physician Dr John Gilchrist to whom he is related, but eventually proves to be a fatal case of kidney stone. |
13 | Case 543 | Case of Mr Cruickshank who has been seen abroad in the cold despite being placed on a mercurial course to cure 'eruptions' on his hands and throat. |
14 | Case 684 | Case of Miss Jean ["Jeanie"] McMurdo [MacMurdo] who in 1775 has a fever, in 1778 has a bad chest condition with feverish symptoms, and then develops severe bouts of colic. |
15 | Case 732 | Case of the Dumfries surgeon Mr James Hill who has a bladder condition. |
16 | Case 746 | Case of Lord Dalzell who has a protracted illness which includes pains in abdomen. |
17 | Case 783 | Case of Mr Atkinson, whose symptoms of diarrhoea, vomiting and biliousness are attributed to a 'weakness of the alimentary canal'. |
18 | Case 811 | Case of Mrs Gordon who has a serious 'visceral obstruction' which Cullen thinks may be a tumour, ovarian in origin. |
19 | Case 923 | Case of the son of Walter Riddell, who has a biliary disorder, possibly a stone. |
20 | Case 950 | Case of Mr Gibson of Kelton who has been affected by the cold in church and has an habitual cough. |
21 | Case 965 | Case of the Reverend Burnside who is left weak from a history of headaches and attacks of sweating. |
22 | Case 1031 | Case of Miss Balmain who has long been delicate and is advised to travel to Galloway via Moffat (see earlier consultation as Case 802). |
23 | Case 1107 | Case of Mr William McDowal [McDowall, McDouall], who has a chest complaint and spits blood. |
24 | Case 1148 | Case of Miss Mitchell whose health was undermined in the West Indies from where she returned two years previously; she has rheumatic pains and a long-standing throat condition which is described variously as a tumour or quinsy. |
25 | Case 1189 | Case of Mrs Clark who has had a persistent cough as the result of a long-standing hectic fever now accompanied by diarrhoea. |
26 | Case 1279 | Case of Mr George Mackenzie staying near Dumfries, who has a cough and spits blood. He travels abroad where he dies. |
27 | Case 1354 | Case of Mr Gordon, who obtains an electrical machine to treat the pain and weakness in his lower back and stomach region, a condition considered almost paralytic by his local physician Dr John Gilchrist. |
28 | Case 1373 | Case of an unnamed female patient with menstrual and uterine problems which are thought to be affecting he mental state; a friend and poor relation of Dr John Gilchrist at Dumfries. |
29 | Case 1410 | Case of Miss Aitken who has a long-standing, intermittent, painful chest complaint. |
30 | Case 1455 | Case of Mr McConchie [Macconchie] whose illness began with a severe pain in his side with loss of appetite and swollen stomach which is now thought dropsical. |
31 | Case 1458 | Case of Mrs Gordon of Greenlaw who is conserdering shaving her head to guard against the colds to which she is susceptible. |
32 | Case 1537 | Case of Lady H. Douglas who has injured her head but Cullen is sure it is only mild concussion. |
33 | Case 1649 | Case of Miss Hill who, like her sister (Case: 1650), is thought to have a weak constitution and whose conplaints stem from obstructed perspiration. |
34 | Case 1650 | Case of Miss Hill who, like her sister (Case: 1649), is thought to have a weak constitution and whose conplaints stem from obstructed perspiration. |
35 | Case 1684 | Case of Mrs. Mary Maxwell of Kirkonnel who suffers from a rheumatic complaint which especially affects her hip. |
36 | Case 1699 | Case of Mr Blair, Provost of Dumfries, with a history of ailments, whose current weak state is attributed by Cullen to hypochondriasis. |
37 | Case 1732 | Case of young Mr McMurdo of Drumlanrig who has a fever. |
38 | Case 1783 | Case of Mrs Mary Maxwell of Kirkconnel who has various symptoms includings sweats, restlessness and pains in her arms and shoulders. |
39 | Case 2001 | Case of George Gordon at Carnshalloch House, Kirkton near Dumfries (but his father appears to be in London), an infant who is being treated with laudanam. |
40 | Case 2002 | Case of Francis Johnston at Carnsalloch House, Kirkton near Dumfries, an infant who has problems with deafness. |
41 | Case 2031 | Case of Mr Stewart of Shambelly [Shambellie] who is advised to got to Buxton for his health but later develops a chest complaint exacerbated by anxiety over family matters. |
42 | Case 2059 | Case of Mr Mackenzie whose complaints may be venereal in origin. |
43 | Case 2101 | Case of Mr Gordon of Skelton, who is advised to go to Buxton for an unstated condition. |
44 | Case 2129 | Case of Mr Ramsay, a Collector of Excise, who has a chest complaint. |
45 | Case 2135 | Case of Lord Dalziel's servant who is prescribed pectoral pills. |
46 | Case 2139 | Case of Miss Spalding whose condition has remained largely unchanged for two years. |
47 | Case 2140 | Case of Miss Murray, who is recovering from an unspecified disorder. |
48 | Case 2141 | Case of Mr B. Bell, whose illness seems to have ended fatally. |
49 | Case 2218 | Case of Sir Thomas Hay whose withdrawn, antisocial, erratic, sometimes wholly insensible moods and behaviour have become a cause for concern. |
50 | Case 2490 | Case of Captain Maitland of Eccles (near Dumfries), who may be diabetic. |
51 | Case 2506 | Case of an unnamed female, "Miss ---- Junr. (Junior)". Cullen thinks her case phthisical. |
52 | Case 2512 | Case of the nephew of Walter Riddell, possibly Mr Kennedy. |