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You were to write me
concerning Mr. Gillies and he
begs leave to remind you of it.
He is at present taking the Medi¬
cines you have prescribed for
him –– A young woman ↑of 22 years of age↑
died here a few days ago of a disease
which had all the marks of the
Angina Pectoris – this case I believe
is on account of the age and sex very
singular; and in the hopes that it will
not be unacceptable I send you a
short account of it –––– for two
months before her death she complained

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of a pain in her breast which extended
to her shoulders and was always
greatly increased and brought on a
Faintness whenever she walked faster
than usual or when she went up a
stair; otherwise she appeared to be
in perfect health; she was a big
strong-made girl and of a chearful tem¬
per; she had no cough and her appetite
was good; and her pulse was at any
time that I felt it calm and regular –

Upon Thursday was eight days after
having walked thro the town & in seeing
Rodney's illuminations ¹ and being startled
with the squibs upon her return home
she was seized with a faint from which
she recovered so far as to be able to speak
which she did ↑distinctly↑ as long as she lived complaining

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of an inexpressible pain in her breast &
in about half an hour after she was
first seized she died –– In Com[p]any with
two other Surgeons Messrs Fulton and White I
afterwards opened her and we [found]
about half a mutchkin of black {illeg}
or serum in each side of the Thorax {illeg}
right Ventricle there was some thi{illeg}
blood, but the left one was empty {illeg}
its inside much inflamed the grea[ter]
part of it being of a dark red co[lour]
the left Venous Sinus and beginning of
the Aorta were likewise inflamed ––
I do not find this disease taken notice
of in your Synopsis ² excepting under the
general term Carditis; but there is no
reference to the London observations ³ –

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Dr. William Cullen
Professor of Medicine
Edinburgh

✍
Mr Taylor
C Mr Gillies and a
Case of Angina Pectoris
June 1782. ––