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About two years ago I was sore troubled with cause¬
less doubts & fears; strange fancies, yea and almost the whole train
of disorders that accompany nervous complaints; and after troubling
you with the account, you was kind enough to prescribe the following
powders, viz, two sruples of the powder of Chamomile flowers, one
scruple of prepared chalk, & one scruple of Peruvian bark; and two
vomits; to be taken, the one before the powders, and the other two weeks
after; and being much the same way shortly; I have taken the
pukes & powders, but ↑tho↑ I think my stomach is rather not so foul,
yet I am pestered with nonsense, besides almost continual
hectic heats, and swellings of my flesh, hands especially, rheumatic
pains, in my side & hip, and at present across one of my thighs,
sweetings in bed in the latter part of the night; stitches &c,
all which, (loth to be always plauging you) Mr Pringle of Belford,
has laboured this quarter of a year to rid me of, by bleeding for
the stitches, blistering twice for the pains in the side, when violent,
by a number of powders of nitre & vermilion; and after all I
applied to your prescription and pukes above mentioned, but
still the heats, and all these doubts, & wanderings of the mind seem
to rage as much as ever; tho, the pains are mostly abated;

Doctor Cullen
Edinburgh