
The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
[ID:4704] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Mr John Crellin / Regarding: Reverend George Mason (Patient) / 6 September 1783 / (Outgoing)
Reply concerning the case of George Mason, the Bishop of Man,.
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Metadata
Field | Data |
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DOC ID | 4704 |
RCPE Catalogue Number | CUL/1/1/16/108 |
Main Language | English |
Document Direction | Outgoing |
Date | 6 September 1783 |
Annotation | None |
Type | Machine copy |
Enclosure(s) | No enclosure(s) |
Autopsy | No |
Recipe | No |
Regimen | No |
Letter of Introduction | No |
Case Note | No |
Summary | Reply concerning the case of George Mason, the Bishop of Man,. |
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:1596] |
Case of the Bishop of Man who is being treated for passing mucus. |
3 |
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:3461] | Addressee | Mr John Crellin |
[PERS ID:3457] | Patient | Reverend George Mason |
[PERS ID:1] | Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary | Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) |
[PERS ID:403] | Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary | Dr Patrick Scott |
[PERS ID:3461] | Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary | Mr John Crellin |
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 |
Destination of Letter | Kirkcudbright | Borders | Scotland | Europe | inferred | |
Mentioned / Other | Kirkcudbright | Borders | Scotland | Europe | certain |
Normalized Text
Bishop of Man
Dear Sir
Your's from Kircudbright gives me a
great deal of concern but I hope as you do that when
my good Lord Bishop gets home and there with
some rest with (↑and↑) the proper medicines as prescribed
I expect he will find the benefit of them as before.
But I must observe to you that we have been obliged
by degrees to increase the force of the injections and
have apprehended that it must be increased still
further. You did therefore very properly try to do
this by adding another spoonful but as you had
them compounded it happened to be too small
an addition and the only advice I can now offer
is that when you get the mixture we prescribed
to be added to the injections instead of taking
a spoonful you must take a spoonful and a
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quarter or perhaps a spoonful and a half as occasion
may seem to require. If you happen to find any
difficulty in this matter Dr. Scott on seeing the
whole of our Advice and prescriptions cannot be at
a loss in perceiving the whole of our plan and in
directing accordingly. Please observe to him that we
wished to avoid if possible the constant use of injec¬
tions and did advise My Lord to Omitt them now
and then and to try sometimes to supply the omission
by an Anodyne draught given by the mouth and
if it shall now be found that the injections do not
answer their purpose so well as before, that
other measure will be more necessary. Waiting
your further report, with respectful compliments
to my Lord Bishop I am
Dear Sir
Your most Obedient humble Servant
William Cullen
Edinburgh 6th. September
1783
Diplomatic Text
Bishop of Man
Dear Sir
Your's from Kircudbright gives me a
great deal of concern but I hope as you do that when
my good Lord Bishop gets home and there with
some rest with (↑and↑) the proper medicines as prescribed
I expect he will find the benefit of them as before.
But I must observe to you that we have been obliged
by degrees to increase the force of the injections and
have apprehended that it must be increased still
further. You did therefore very properly try to do
this by adding another spoonful but as you had
them compounded it happened to be too small
an addition and the only advice I can now offer
is that when you get the mixture we prescribed
to be added to the injections instead of taking
a spoonful you must take a spoonful and a
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quarter or perhaps a spoonful and a half as occasion
may seem to require. If you happen to find any
difficulty in this matter Dr. Scott on seeing the
whole of our Advice and prescriptions cannot be at
a loss in perceiving the whole of our plan and in
directing accordingly. Please observe to him that we
wished to avoid if possible the constant use of injec¬
tions and did advise My Lord to Omitt them now
and then and to try sometimes to supply the omission
by an Anodyne draught given by the mouth and
if it shall now be found that the injections do not
answer their purpose so well as before, that
other measure will be more necessary. Waiting
your further report, with respectful compliments
to my Lord Bishop I am
Dear Sir
Your most Obedient humble Servant
William Cullen
Edr. 6th. Septr.
1783
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