
The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
[ID:409] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: [ADDRESSEE UNKNOWN] / Regarding: Mrs Pinkerton (Patient) / 12 October 1768 / (Outgoing)
Reply 'For Mrs Pinkerton' with numbered directions on regimen and three recipes. The transcript is immediately followed by a blank page in the case-book, but this has no obvious bearing upon this entry.
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Metadata
Field | Data |
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DOC ID | 409 |
RCPE Catalogue Number | CUL/1/1/2/30 |
Main Language | English |
Document Direction | Outgoing |
Date | 12 October 1768 |
Annotation | None |
Type | Scribal copy ( includes Casebook Entry) |
Enclosure(s) | No enclosure(s) |
Autopsy | No |
Recipe | Yes |
Regimen | Yes |
Letter of Introduction | No |
Case Note | No |
Summary | Reply 'For Mrs Pinkerton' with numbered directions on regimen and three recipes. The transcript is immediately followed by a blank page in the case-book, but this has no obvious bearing upon this entry. |
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:235] |
Case of Mrs Pinkerton who is provided with a strengthening regimen and medicines (mention of her leg discharging). |
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People linked to this document
Person ID | Role in document | Person |
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[PERS ID:1] | Author | Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) |
[PERS ID:1254] | Patient | Mrs Pinkerton |
[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 | Cullen's House / Mint Close | Edinburgh | Edinburgh and East | Scotland | Europe | certain |
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For Mrs Pinkerton
1 Let her take three of the strengthening powders
every day that is one at eleven in the forenoon another
at six afternoon & a third at bed time.
2. The Powders may be taken in a glass of Water
but after ever[d?] 1 dose let her take the table spoonfulls
of the Strengthening mixture.
3. These medicines are to be taken for eight days
together immediately before the end of the month
& then to be laid aside till the same time again
4 Her diet must be for the most part without meat
& entirely without fish. Two or three days of the
week at Dinner she may take some chicken or a
bit of boiled mutton but on other days she must
take no meat at all & never at supper Her diet
must be chiefly Milk & {illeg} Grain that is any time
made of bread, Wheat flower, Rice, flower of Rice
Barley, Oatmeal, Sago or Millet. These may be
taken with Milk made into Puddings dressed
in any other manner she likes best. At the same
time she may take any thing from the garden. Roots
Greens or Fruit only let her avoid any thing from
the Garden the she knows will prove very windy
on her stomach. ---
For drink toast water is the best but if she [bears?]
small beer & can always have it good she may take
it. Nothing stronger than small beer whether ale
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Wine or Spirits she must ever take.
Tea & coffe ar boath are bothe to be entirely avoided
5 Walking or standing are both bad for her but going
in a chaise may be of great service & when her legs
are better going on horsback. When shes she is
within doors till her legs are better she should for
the most part be laid upon a stool or she should rest
upon the bed.
6. When any part of her leg discharges any humour
she may have a plaister such as she has at present
applied to it but to the parts that are dry she should have
the meal ordered below applied to it [dusting?] well two
or three times a day
Take two scruples of powdered Peruvian Bark, ten grains of Cinnamon, and five grains of Green Vitriol. Mix accurately and make a powder, and let this be divided into twenty four doses. Label: Strengthening Powders
Take six ounces of thin Cinnamon Water, one and a half ounces of strong Cinnamon, four ounces of rectified Lemon Juice, one drachm of Tincture of Mars, and one ounce of white Sugar. Mix. Label: Strengthening Mixture.
Take one pound of good, finely ground, farinaceous oats, a pound of {illeg}, two ounces of Fenugreek Seeds, and one drachm of Camphor. Mix and make a powder. Label: Descutitient Meal.
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Notes:
1: May possibly be an 'o' as a contraction for 'other'.
Diplomatic Text
For Mrs Pinkerton
1 Let her take three of the strengthening powders
every day that is one at eleven in the forenoon another
at six afternoon & a third at bed time.
2. The Powders may be taken in a glass of Water
but after ever[d?] 1 dose let her take the table spoonfulls
of the Strengthening mixture.
3. These medicines are to be taken for eight days
together immediately before the end of the month
& then to be laid aside till the same time again
4 Her diet must be for the most part without meat
& entirely without fish. Two or three days of the
week at Dinner she may take some chicken or a
bit of boiled mutton but on other days she must
take no meat at all & never at supper Her diet
must be chiefly Milk & {illeg} Grain that is any time
made of bread, Wheat flower, Rice, flower of Rice
Barley, Oatmeal, Sago or Millet. These may be
taken with Milk made into Puddings dressed
in any other manner she likes best. At the same
time she may take any thing from the garden. Roots
Greens or Fruit only let her avoid any thing from
the Garden the she knows will prove very windy
on her stomach. ---
For drink toast water is the best but if she [bears?]
small beer & can always have it good she may take
it. Nothing stronger than small beer whether ale
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Wine or Spirits she must ever take.
Tea & coffe ar boath are bothe to be entirely avoided
5 Walking or standing are both bad for her but going
in a chaise may be of great service & when her legs
are better going on horsback. When shes she is
within doors till her legs are better she should for
the most part be laid upon a stool or she should rest
upon the bed.
6. When any part of her leg discharges any humour
she may have a plaister such as she has at present
applied to it but to the parts that are dry she should have
the meal ordered below applied to it [dusting?] well two
or three times a day
℞ pulv. Cort. Peruv. ℈ij
Cinnam. gr. x
Sal. mart. gr. v.
ℳ. accurate ut f. Pulvis & fiant hujus mode doses
№ xxiv. Signa Strengthening Powders
℞ Aq. Cinnam. ten. ℥vi
Cinnam. fort. ℥iſs
Succ. Limon. rec. ℥iv
Tinct. Mart. ʒi
Sacchar. alb. ℥i
ℳ. Signa Strengthening Mixture.
℞ farin. avenae tenuis. & bene
[osibratæ?] lbj
-- Sem. Fenugrec. ℥ij
Camphor. ʒi
ℳ. f. pulvis signa [Descutient?] Meal.
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Notes:
1: May possibly be an 'o' as a contraction for 'other'.
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