The Cullen Project | [ID:1623] From: Mr James Swan / To: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / Regarding: Mrs Elizabeth Allan (Colquhoun) (of Row) (Patient) / 8 February 1779 / (Incoming)

[ID:1623] From: Mr James Swan / To: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / Regarding: Mrs Elizabeth Allan (Colquhoun) (of Row) (Patient) / 8 February 1779 / (Incoming)

Letter from James Swan in Dumbarton, concerning the case of Mrs Allan.

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Metadata

Field	Data
DOC ID	1623
RCPE Catalogue Number	CUL/1/2/713
Main Language	English
Document Direction	Incoming
Date	8 February 1779
Annotation	None
Type	Authorial original
Enclosure(s)	No enclosure(s)
Autopsy	No
Recipe	No
Regimen	No
Letter of Introduction	No
Case Note	No
Summary	Letter from James Swan in Dumbarton, concerning the case of Mrs Allan.
Manuscript Incomplete?	No
Evidence of Commercial Posting	No

Case

Cases that this document belongs to:

Case ID	Description	Num Docs
[Case ID:819]	Case of Mrs Allan, the wife of the minister at Row, who is diagnosed as being an 'hysterical melancholic' arising from religious considerations' but whose condition improves with a regimen and medicines.	4

People linked to this document

Person ID	Role in document	Person
[PERS ID:2347]	Author	Mr James Swan
[PERS ID:1]	Addressee	Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:2076]	Patient	Mrs Elizabeth Allan (of Row)
[PERS ID:1]	Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary	Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:2347]	Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary	Mr James Swan
[PERS ID:2075]	Patient's Relative / Spouse / Friend	Reverend John Allan (secundus, of Row)

Places linked to this document

Role in document	Settlements / Areas	Region	Country	Global Region	Confidence
Place of Writing	Dumbarton	Glasgow and West	Scotland	Europe	certain
Destination of Letter	Edinburgh	Edinburgh and East	Scotland	Europe	certain
Mentioned / Other	Rhu (Row)	Glasgow and West	Scotland	Europe	certain

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Sir

Last harvest you was Consulted
about a Patient of mine Mrs Allan the
Ministers wife at Row - her disease you
may remember was a general Laxity
of the System - her Constitution at any
time is but delicate; but at that time was
increassed by Nursing longer that she Could
well bear; and She her self thought that there
was something Consumptive in her Case-

Your prescriptions were still powders &
Cinnamon with an Infusion of the Bark-
The medicens had an excellent effect, and
in a little time, ↑She↑ recovered Very well, and
is now supposed to be in a pregnant state

I was disired to write you, but some how
or other had neglected it; till leatly Mr

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Allan & Mrs Allan Chide me for not writting you,
and they return their kindest Compliments to you
and their warmest acknowledgments for your advice
from which she has recevid so much benefite

I ever am most respectfully

Dear Sir
Your most Obliged humble Servant

Jas: Swan

Dumbarton
8 February 1779

My Son desires his most respectable
Compliments to you

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To
Doctor William Cullen
Professor of Medicen
university
Edinburgh

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Swan of Dunbarton
Query
Mrs Allan
February 1779.

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Dear
D
ear
heat
heat
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Sir

I was disired to write you, but some how
or other had neglected it; till leatly Mr

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Allan & Mrs Allan Chide me for not writting you,
and they return their kindest Compliments to you
and their warmest acknowledgments for your advice
from which she has recevid so much benefite

I ever am most respectfully

Dear Sir
Your most Obliged humble Servant

Jas: Swan

Dumbarton
8 Febr. 1779

My Son desires his most respectable
Compliments to you

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To
Doctor William Cullen
Professor of Medicen
university
Edinr

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Swan of Dunbarton
Q
Mrs Allan
Feby. 1779.

✍

Dear
D
ear
heat
heat
he