The Cullen Project | People [PERS ID:148]

People [PERS ID:148]

Field	Data
ID	148
Title	Dr
First Name	John
Middle Name/Initial(s)
Last Name	Alves
Maiden Name
AKA
Gender	Male
Occupation	Physician
Medical Professional?	Medical Professional

Birth/Death

Birth/Death
Birth (year)
Date of death (year)	1788

Notes


Inverness physician. Probably once studied medicine at Edinburgh as he had some professional correspondence with at least one member of the Edinburgh faculty.

Cases that this person appears in:

Count	Case ID	Case Name
1	Case 11	Case of Mrs Fordyce diagnosed as having 'an Hysteric affection'.
2	Case 82	Case of Lewis 'Lewie" Dunbar suffering from frequent 'fits'.
3	Case 175	Case of Mrs Baillie who caught a cold, then got chilled in church and is now feverish.
4	Case 188	Case of an unnamed male patient aged sixty - who had a career in the military - 'troubled with gouty complaints' and 'subject to Strangury the Consequence of Gonorrhea Viruleuta...'.
5	Case 434	Case of Hugh Fraser who has a very serious abdominal condition.
6	Case 788	Case of Mrs [Jane] Fraser of Relict [Relig/Reelig], who suffers from breathlessness and pain in her side; she subsequently falls down stairs, becomes pregnant and is then dissuaded from suckling her child for fear of her catching milk fever and a cold.
7	Case 806	Case of Mrs Fraser who consulted Cullen back in 'Winter 1765' [no documents traced] and who may have recently miscarried.
8	Case 931	Case of two unnamed men reported by Dr Alves at Inverness who were bitten by a rabid dog and are suspected of contracting hydrophobia.
9	Case 980	Case of Mr Fraser of Gortubeg who has a tumour on his lip.
10	Case 1021	Case of Mr Fraser of Culduthill who has a painful stomach disorder with vomiting which Cullen attributes to the pressure of a tumour.
11	Case 1027	Case of Mr Sutherland of Clyne who has had a paralytic stroke (palsy), and two years later develops a suspected bladder stone (see also notes for Document 36141 which might be related to this case).
12	Case 1259	Case of Sheriff Campbell who has started having violent 'fitts of Passion; and displaying other signs of mental derangement.
13	Case 1352	Case of Captain Ross, a young soldier, who caught a venereal infection when in America - which was treated - but who after recently attending a recent review at Ford George has started to display signs of a severe mental disorder.
14	Case 1838	Case of Mr Fraser who has suffered from headaches and other symptoms after being exposed to the sun in June 1772.
15	Case 2076	Case of Mr Hugh Munro of Achanie, who is suspected of having liver disease.