
The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
[ID:2434] Case Note / Regarding: Mrs Vans Agnew (Patient) / 12? January? 1784? / (Incoming)
Unsigned case note describing the case of Mrs Vans Agnew. Dating inferred from date of Cullen's reply, ID:4772.
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Metadata
Field | Data |
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DOC ID | 2434 |
RCPE Catalogue Number | CUL/1/2/1489 |
Main Language | English |
Document Direction | Incoming |
Date | 12? January? 1784? |
Annotation | None |
Type | Authorial original |
Enclosure(s) | No enclosure(s) |
Autopsy | No |
Recipe | No |
Regimen | No |
Letter of Introduction | No |
Case Note | No |
Summary | Unsigned case note describing the case of Mrs Vans Agnew. Dating inferred from date of Cullen's reply, ID:4772. |
Manuscript Incomplete? | No |
Evidence of Commercial Posting | No |
Case
Cases that this document belongs to:
Case ID | Description | Num Docs |
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[Case ID:889] |
Case of Mrs Vans Agnew, a 23 year old woman with a post-natal illness following the birth of her fifth child. |
4 |
People linked to this document
Person ID | Role in document | Person |
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[PERS ID:1] | Addressee | Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) |
[PERS ID:2930] | Patient | Mrs Vans Agnew |
[PERS ID:1] | Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary | Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) |
Places linked to this document
Role in document | Specific Place | Settlements / Areas | Region | Country | Global Region | Confidence |
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Place of Writing | Dunlop | Glasgow and West | Scotland | Europe | inferred | |
Destination of Letter | Edinburgh | Edinburgh and East | Scotland | Europe | inferred | |
Mentioned / Other | Barnbarroch House / Barnbarrow | Whauphill | Borders | Scotland | Europe | certain |
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Mrs Vans Agnew of Barnborow Aged 23 years Mother of five
children Recover'd always well after Delivery and was very Healthy - but
being for some time Past in ane uncommon way her friends wishes to
have the oppinion and advise of Docter Cullen Mrs Vans was Regular
after Recovery of her last child for three mounths, and the milk intirly Gon
from her Breasts, at the end of the fourth mounth she had colick pains, but
only a show of being Regular, for some weeks she has Pains in her head
and a flushing in her face, she turn'd [better?] of that, but has stounds in
her breasts and milk run out of them, we hop'd the nixt mounthly Period
would have sett all right, but she has continou'd to have milk in her
Breasts always less or more runs out every day, and regularly at the
mounths end she has just a Threatning of being out of order, but not
attended with colick pains and in this way she has continou'd for Nine
Mounths past, she is reather thiner than common but not weak or ill
Culler'd, the [shurgen?] who blooded her says her blood is reather thin
She has from Childhood been Trubled with worms the smalest
kind and is always Costive, She has no Perticular Complaint in her
stomach and eats her meat as well and sleeps very well
the only Difference in her way of life is, that she was in the habit of
Taking more exercise than she has done for twelve mounths Past
The surgeon who attends her says her Pulse has never been feverish
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Mrs Agnew
vol. XV. p. 379
Diplomatic Text
Mrs Vans Agnew of Barnborow Aged 23 years Mother of five
children Recover'd always well after Delivery and was very Healthy - but
being for some time Past in ane uncommon way her friends wishes to
have the oppinion and advise of Docter Cullen Mrs Vans was Regular
after Recovery of her last child for three mounths, and the milk intirly Gon
from her Breasts, at the end of the fourth mounth she had colick pains, but
only a show of being Regular, for some weeks she has Pains in her head
and a flushing in her face, she turn'd [better?] of that, but has stounds in
her breasts and milk run out of them, we hop'd the nixt mounthly Period
would have sett all right, but she has continou'd to have milk in her
Breasts always less or more runs out every day, and regularly at the
mounths end she has just a Threatning of being out of order, but not
attended with colick pains and in this way she has continou'd for Nine
Mounths past, she is reather thiner than common but not weak or ill
Culler'd, the [shurgen?] who blooded her says her blood is reather thin
She has from Childhood been Trubled with worms the smalest
kind and is always Costive, She has no Perticular Complaint in her
stomach and eats her meat as well and sleeps very well
the only Difference in her way of life is, that she was in the habit of
Taking more exercise than she has done for twelve mounths Past
The surgeon who attends her says her Pulse has never been feverish
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Mrs Agnew
vol. XV. p. 379
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