The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
[ID:2144] From: Mr / To: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / Regarding: Mr (Patient) / January 1782 / (Incoming)
Letter from an unnamed correspondent concerning his own case, written in the form of a series of numbered questions and answers concerning his symptoms and habits. The patient is aged twenty-eight, 'Gross' but 'alert and active' on his limbs. He suffered from small pox twelve years prior, to which he attributes the origin of his pain.
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Metadata
Field | Data |
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DOC ID | 2144 |
RCPE Catalogue Number | CUL/1/2/1219 |
Main Language | English |
Document Direction | Incoming |
Date | January 1782 |
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 an unnamed correspondent concerning his own case, written in the form of a series of numbered questions and answers concerning his symptoms and habits. The patient is aged twenty-eight, 'Gross' but 'alert and active' on his limbs. He suffered from small pox twelve years prior, to which he attributes the origin of his pain. |
Manuscript Incomplete? | No |
Evidence of Commercial Posting | No |
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Case ID | Description | Num Docs |
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[Case ID:1550] |
Case of an unnamed correspondent concerning his own case, written in the form of a series of numbered questions and answers concerning his symptoms and habits; smallpox mentioned. |
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People linked to this document
Person ID | Role in document | Person |
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[PERS ID:4848] | Author | Mr |
[PERS ID:1] | Addressee | Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) |
[PERS ID:4848] | Patient | Mr |
[PERS ID:1] | Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary | Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) |
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Question
1 is there any hardness to felt externally at the pained part
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2 is there any considerable pain produced from touching the part externally
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3 is the pain always fixed to one part or does it change Situation
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4 is the pain constant in some degree or have you ever any
intervalls entirely free from it -------------------------
5 When you are most free from it have you any sense of
weight at the part which is generally pained ---------
6 Are you always oblidged to lye on the left Side or is it only
when the pain is Severe --------------------------------------
7 Does the pain affect your appetite for food and is it
ever excited after a full ↑meal↑ of solids as well as by
drinking cold fluids ------------------------------
8 are you ever much affected with wind in your Stomach
or bowells
9 Have you any Considerable Relief from the discharge of---
wind upwards or downwards --------
10 is the pain ever attended with vomiting if it is what
appearance has the matter that is vomited --------
11 doe you ever complain of sowerness at the Stomach
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12 do you ever find the pain to be excited by anything except
drinking cold liquors
13 How long is it since you had the Small pox when this pain
commenced -------------------
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Answer
1 I doe not feel any hardness externally at the pained part
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2 By touching the part externally it does cause ↑pain↑ but not very considerable
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3 The pain is always fixed to one part does not Change Situation
in the left side Videlicet
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4 The pain is rather constant this year past than before
but there are few intervalls free from it
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5 When I am most free from it perceive no weight at the
affected part ----------------------------
6 I am always obliged to lye on the left Side with or
without the pain, as lying on the right Side would Cause
the pain to come on and found when I wanted to sleep on the
right Side could not untill I turned on the left ------------
7 I cannot say that a meal of Solids brings it on but
have experienced that taking Salads and much vinegar
with Cold meat brings it on -- When I have the
pain violently which is generally after drinking hearty
cannot eat or drink (except whey) untill I am better ---------
8 I am not much afflicted with wind whenever I am it is in
the bowells -----------------
9 On the Discharge of wind which is generally downwards Some
Small relief is obtained but the pain is no Degree Removed ----
---------------------------------
10 when the pain is brought on by Drinking, a vomiting always
ensues, the matter vomited is a gross phlegmatic Substance
not yellow ---------------------------
11 I doe continually these twelve months past find a sowrness
at Stomach -----------------------------
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12 an answer to this part See № 7
if abroad a Cold day without plenty of body Clothes it would
cause the pain, or getting cold in the feet would bring it on
13 it is twelve years Since I had the Small pox had the
pain but Seldom for five or Six years - I then found it
generally proceeded from cold in the feet -- but Since
have kept myself tolerably warm -- after that 5 or 6
years it has troubld me very often more particularly
these two years past ----------------
Please to Observe that the pain is always very Cold
must Sometimes in bed keep my hands on it to warm
it --
The following us an account of my age habit
Habit of body and manner of living &c --
I am present about 28 years of age Gross and Inclined to
but alert and active on my limbs - that is when without the pain
I shall first mention how I lived these three or four Years past
{illeg} in a Ware Room - Seldom out except
at night and on Sunday was in the country twice a year
a fortnight or three weeks at each time - always lived well
at present much in the same manner - But if necessary
can devote some time abroad to exercise and have at
command a horse to Ride - I am an Indifferent
breakfast man - I dine tolerably well but no supper
Diplomatic Text
Question
1 is there any hardness to felt externally at the pained part
----------------------------
2 is there any considerable pain produced from touching the part externally
----------------------------
3 is the pain always fixed to one part or does it change Situation
-----------------------------
4 is the pain constant in some degree or have you ever any
intervalls entirely free from it -------------------------
5 When you are most free from it have you any sense of
weight at the part which is generally pained ---------
6 Are you always oblidged to lye on the left Side or is it only
when the pain is Severe --------------------------------------
7 Does the pain affect your appetite for food and is it
ever excited after a full ↑meal↑ of solids as well as by
drinking cold fluids ------------------------------
8 are you ever much affected with wind in your Stomach
or bowells
9 Have you any Considerable Relief from the discharge of---
wind upwards or downwards --------
10 is the pain ever attended with vomiting if it is what
appearance has the matter that is vomited --------
11 doe you ever complain of sowerness at the Stomach
[Page 2]
12 do you ever find the pain to be excited by anything except
drinking cold liquors
13 How long is it since you had the Small pox when this pain
commenced -------------------
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Answer
1 I doe not feel any hardness externally at the pained part
---------------------------
2 By touching the part externally it does cause ↑pain↑ but not very considerable
---------------------------
3 The pain is always fixd. to one part does not Change Situation
in the left side Vizt
----------------------------
4 The pain is rather constant this year past than before
but there are few intervalls free from it
-------------------------
5 When I am most free from it perceive no weight at the
affected part ----------------------------
6 I am always obliged to lye on the left Side with or
without the pain, as lying on the right Side would Cause
the pain to come on and found when I wanted to sleep on the
right Side could not untill I turned on the left ------------
7 I cannot say that a meal of Solids brings it on but
have experienced that taking Salads and much vinegar
with Cold meat brings it on -- When I have the
pain violently which is generally after drinking hearty
cannot eat or drink (except whey) untill I am better ---------
8 I am not much afflicted with wind whenever I am it is in
the bowells -----------------
9 On the Discharge of wind which is generally downwards Some
Small relief is obtained but the pain is no Degree Removed ----
---------------------------------
10 when the pain is brought on by Drinking, a vomiting always
ensues, the matter vomited is a gross phlegmatic Substance
not yellow ---------------------------
11 I doe continually these twelve months past find a sowrness
at Stomach -----------------------------
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12 an answer to this part See № 7
if abroad a Cold day without plenty of body Clothes it would
cause the pain, or getting cold in the feet would bring it on
13 it is twelve years Since I had the Small pox had the
pain but Seldom for five or Six years - I then found it
generally proceeded from cold in the feet -- but Since
have kept myself tolerably warm -- after that 5 or 6
years it has troubld me very often more particularly
these two years past ----------------
Please to Observe that the pain is always very Cold
must Sometimes in bed keep my hands on it to warm
it --
The following us an account of my age habit
Habit of body and manner of living &c --
I am present about 28 years of age Gross and Inclined to
but alert and active on my limbs - that is when without ye. pain
I shall first mention how I lived these three or four Years past
{illeg} in a Ware Room - Seldom out except
at night and on Sunday was in the country twice a year
a fortnight or three weeks at each time - always lived well
at present much in the same manner - But if necessary
can devote some time abroad to exercise and have at
command a horse to Ride - I am an Indifferent
breakfast man - I dine tolerably well but no supper
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