The Cullen Project | [ID:5908] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Earl Charles Mordaunt / Regarding: Earl Charles Mordaunt (Patient) / 3 November 1789 / (Outgoing)

[ID:5908] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Earl Charles Mordaunt / Regarding: Earl Charles Mordaunt (Patient) / 3 November 1789 / (Outgoing)

Reply, 'Earl of Peterborough'. A recipe is mentioned, but not enclosed.

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Field	Data
DOC ID	5908
RCPE Catalogue Number	CUL/1/1/21/178
Main Language	English
Document Direction	Outgoing
Date	3 November 1789
Annotation	None
Type	Machine scribal copy
Enclosure(s)	Enclosure(s) mentioned, but missing
Autopsy	No
Recipe	No
Regimen	No
Letter of Introduction	No
Case Note	No
Summary	Reply, 'Earl of Peterborough'. A recipe is mentioned, but not enclosed.
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:2279]	Case of the Earl of Peterborough.	3

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Person ID	Role in document	Person
[PERS ID:1]	Author	Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:5516]	Addressee	Earl Charles Mordaunt
[PERS ID:5516]	Patient	Earl Charles Mordaunt
[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

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Earl of Peterborough

My Lord

I have again and again turned over
in my mind your Lordship complaints and
find them indeed with respect to their
circumstances, and especially with respect
to the effect of medicines upon them, of a
very anomalous and singular kind. I will
however attempt to relieve them, and have
sent upon the inclosed paper a medicine
wh prescription for a medicine that I
expect will be of service. I have thought
of some other means that may be of use
but I will not prescribe them now till
I shall know the effects of the prescrip¬
tion inclosed. So far as I can learn
from your Lordship, it is a medicine
yet untried, and I beg you may now

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give it a fair trial for sometime. It is
to be taken by two tea spoonfuls for a
dose in a small glass of water. If your
Lordship shall find it disagreeably acid
you may either diminish the dose, or
increase the quantity of water that
is taken with it. I would wish it to
be rather strong in the acid, and it may
commonly be made easy, by a spoonful
or two of plain water swallowed after it
It may be taken at any time when the
stomach is uneasy with wind, but the
most proper times are upon first awa¬
king in the morning, or a little before
or after Dinner. I would always wish
it to be taken three or four times a day

I have the honour to be with the utm[ost]
respect

My lord
your Lordships
most obedient humble serv[ant]

William Cullen

Edinburgh 3d. November
1789 -