The Cullen Project | [ID:575] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Mr John Short / Regarding: Mr Thomas Smith (Patient) / 12 June 1782 / (Outgoing)

[ID:575] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Mr John Short / Regarding: Mr Thomas Smith (Patient) / 12 June 1782 / (Outgoing)

Short letter [to John Short] concerning Mr [Thomas] Smith, who is already taking 'Camphire' and 'soluble Tartar'. Cullen thinks it is 'rather a fatuous than a maniacal state', and adds in a postscript that' being distressed with the influenza this letter has been delayed'.

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Field	Data
DOC ID	575
RCPE Catalogue Number	CUL/1/1/15/59
Main Language	English
Document Direction	Outgoing
Date	12 June 1782
Annotation	None
Type	Machine copy
Enclosure(s)	No enclosure(s)
Autopsy	No
Recipe	Yes
Regimen	No
Letter of Introduction	No
Case Note	No
Summary	Short letter [to John Short] concerning Mr [Thomas] Smith, who is already taking 'Camphire' and 'soluble Tartar'. Cullen thinks it is 'rather a fatuous than a maniacal state', and adds in a postscript that' being distressed with the influenza this letter has been delayed'.
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:1032]	Case of Mr Thomas Smith who is feverish and 'fatuous' and then suffers a paralytic stroke.	6

People linked to this document

Person ID	Role in document	Person
[PERS ID:1]	Author	Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:671]	Addressee	Mr John Short
[PERS ID:2973]	Patient	Mr Thomas Smith
[PERS ID:1]	Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary	Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:671]	Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary	Mr John Short

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		Bo'ness (Borness / Borrowstouneness)	Mid Scotland	Scotland	Europe	certain

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Mr Smith Boness

Edinburgh 12th June 1782

Dear Sir

I am sorry to find Mr Smith no better
am much afraid that the ailment will be tedious and must
perhaps be left to time but I would not yet give up all
attempts. There is plainly no feverish or inflammatory
state at bottom and as I hinted to you it is rather a
fatuous than a maniacal state. Upon this supposition
I would willingly try a tonic medicine and the following
formula may answer the purpose

Take one ounce of powdered Peruvian Bark, two drachms of prepared Iron filings, one drachm of powdered Cinnamon, one and a half ounces of Conserve of rose and a sufficient quantity of Simple Syrup to make an Electuary, the bulk of which is to be taken in an emergency, twice a day

While he uses this the Camphire may be laid aside and
also the Soluble Tartar unless Costiveness shall require that or
some other laxative.

I am always
Dear John Yours [-?]

William Cullen

Being distressed much with the Influenza
this letter has been delayed.

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Mr Smith Boness

Edinr. 12th June 1782

Dear Sir

℞ Cort. Peruvian. pulv. ℥j
Limatur. Mart. ppt. ʒij
Cinnamom. pulv. ʒj
Cons. rosar. ℥jſs
Syr. Simpl. q. s. ut f. Electuarium
cujus capiat molem H. M. bis in die

While he uses this the Camphire may be laid aside and
also the Soluble Tartar unless Costiveness shall require that or
some other laxative.

I am always
Dear John Yours [-?]

William Cullen

Being distressed much wth the Influenza
this letter has been delayed.

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