The Cullen Project | [ID:4018] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Mr David Russell / Regarding: Mr David Russell (Patient) / 19 March 1777 / (Outgoing)

[ID:4018] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Mr David Russell / Regarding: Mr David Russell (Patient) / 19 March 1777 / (Outgoing)

Reply to 'Mr David Russel'., replying to Letter ID: 1383. 'Still see nothing venereal but but suspect gravel in your kidnies'. Cullen gives some general advice and suggests using the lotion previously provided (in Letter ID: 4006) to make a poultice for a genital inflammation.

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Field	Data
DOC ID	4018
RCPE Catalogue Number	CUL/1/1/8/130
Main Language	English
Document Direction	Outgoing
Date	19 March 1777
Annotation	None
Type	Scribal copy ( includes Casebook Entry)
Enclosure(s)	No enclosure(s)
Autopsy	No
Recipe	No
Regimen	No
Letter of Introduction	No
Case Note	No
Summary	Reply to 'Mr David Russel'., replying to Letter ID: 1383. 'Still see nothing venereal but but suspect gravel in your kidnies'. Cullen gives some general advice and suggests using the lotion previously provided (in Letter ID: 4006) to make a poultice for a genital inflammation.
Manuscript Incomplete?	No
Evidence of Commercial Posting	No

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Cases that this document belongs to:

Case ID	Description	Num Docs
[Case ID:373]	Case of David Russell with various symptoms including genito-urinary problems.	7

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Person ID	Role in document	Person
[PERS ID:1]	Author	Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:1545]	Addressee	Mr David Russell
[PERS ID:1545]	Patient	Mr David Russell
[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
Place of Writing	Cullen's House / Mint Close	Edinburgh	Edinburgh and East	Scotland	Europe	certain
Destination of Letter		Glasgow	Glasgow and West	Scotland	Europe	inferred

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Mr David Russel

Sorry his ailments so obstinate but am of the same
opinion almost as before. Still see nothing venereal but
but suspect gravel in your kidnies. The pain of your
back & pain & heat in making water & pains of your
stones all point this way & even your heat in the night
may be a part of the same disorder. Examine your water
for sand or gravel & tell me its colour & sediment. Persist
in the regimen I proposed. You may take a soft egg
sometimes at dinner, but to do it frequently is improper.
You may visit your friend if you observe your regimen
there as well as in town. Be cautious in all sort of
Exercise & under the suspicion of your kidnies I think
you will bear neither walking nor riding but in the most
moderate manner. I see no harm in your taking tea
freely. I have no opinion of Velnos' vegetable syrup & you
have at any rate no need for it. For the inflam¬

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mation of the glans, nothing better than the Lotion I
prescribed. You may also use it as a poultice in the night
time. The Poultice is to be made by taking as much crum
of bread as may be necessary & moistening this very well with
the Lotion it is to be spread to about a quarter of an inch
thick on a bit of Linnen & laying above it a piece of
fine lawn or muslin it is to be laid round the glans.

W.C.

Edinburgh 19. March. 1777.

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Mr David Russel

Sorry his ailments so obstinate but am of the same
opinion almost as before. Still see nothing venereal but
but suspect gravel in your kidnies. The pain of your
back & pain & heat in making water & pains of your
stones all point this way & even your heat in the night
m. b. a part of the same disorder. Examine your water
for sand or gravel & tell me its colour & sediment. Persist
in the regimen I proposed. You may take a soft egg
sometimes at dinner, but to do it freqy is improper.
You may visit your friend if you observe your regimen
there as well as in town. Be cautious in all sort of
Exercise & under the suspicion of your kidnies I think
you will bear neither walking nor riding but in the most
moderate manner. I see no harm in your taking tea
freely. I have no opinion of Velnos' veg. syrup & you
have at any rate no need for it. For the inflam¬

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mation of the glans, nothing better than the Lotion I
prescribed. You may also use it as a poultice in the night
time. The Poultice is to be made by taking as much crum
of bread as m. b. necessary & moisteng this very well with
the Lotion it is to be spread to about a quarter of an inch
thick on a bit of Linnen & laying above it a piece of
fine lawn or muslin it is to be laid round the glans.

W.C.

Edin.r 19. March. 1777.

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