The Cullen Project | People [PERS ID:544]

People [PERS ID:544]

Field	Data
ID	544
Title	Dr
First Name	Henry
Middle Name/Initial(s)
Last Name	Cullen
Maiden Name
AKA	Harry, Dr Henry, "the young doctor"
Gender	Male
Occupation	Physician
Medical Professional?	Medical Professional

Birth/Death

Birth/Death
Birth (year)	1758
Date of death (year)	1790

Notes


The only one of William Cullen's sons to pursue a medical career. Graduated with medical degree from Edinburgh, studying under his father, and was appointed physician-in-ordinary to the Royal Edinburgh Infirmary in 1776, a position he held until his premature death a few months after that of his father. Probably acted as scribe for some of his father's case-records and certainly, from the Autumn of 1789 starts answering some patient letters on behalf of his ailing father.

The only one of William Cullen's sons to pursue a medical career. Graduated with medical degree from Edinburgh, studying under his father, and was appointed physician-in-ordinary to the Royal Edinburgh Infirmary in 1776, a position he held until his premature death a few months after that of his father. Probably acted as scribe for some of his father's case-records and certainly, from the Autumn of 1789 starts answering some patient letters on behalf of his ailing father.

Cases that this person appears in:

Count	Case ID	Case Name
1	Case 3	Case of Earl Cassillis, who is fevered, weak and in a state of terminal decline; eventually includes a post-mortem report.
2	Case 196	Case of John (Lindsay) Bethune of Kilconquhar, being reported almost daily by his surgeon John Goodsir.
3	Case 392	Cases communicated by Charles Broughton, a London surgeon, who sends Cullen letters detailing the successful use of his proprietary ointment that is supposed to cure tumours.
4	Case 781	Case of Mrs Henrietta Duff who suffers from shoulder pains, a swollen thigh, sweats, and spits blood.
5	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.
6	Case 822	Case of the Honourable Captain Frederick Maitland, whose muscular pains are treated as rheumatic. In 1786 he has become very feeble and is in danger of a stroke.
7	Case 878	Case of young Campbell Betham of the Isle of Man, a student at Glasgow nursed through the measles by Cullen who is a personal friend of his father.
8	Case 909	Case of John Cook of Gallowhill, who suffers from phlegm and other ailments exacerbated by excessive drinking.
9	Case 916	Case of Mr MacDonald who has piles.
10	Case 968	Case of George Burdon who has a long-standing rheumatic complaint, develops bloody urine, suspected gravel and who eventually passes a large stone.
11	Case 1044	Case of Miss Home, sister of William Home at Berwick, who has a bad cough and spits blood; suspected of being a consumptive.
12	Case 1167	Case of Mrs Ogilvie who has a cough and chest complaint.
13	Case 1272	Case of Mr John Surtees who has asthma and erysipelas on his hands and face.
14	Case 1277	Case of Lady Grace Campbell who is generally deprived of her 'powers' and suffers vertigo, headaches and other 'nervous' symptoms [see earlier Case 340].
15	Case 1329	Case of Edward Brisbane, a merchant returned to Glasgow from America, who has ascites and anasarca (fluid retention) which prove fatal.
16	Case 1394	Case of Miss Carter a young girl with menstrual problems.
17	Case 1591	Case of Dr Percy, Bishop of Dromore, who experiences a strange sensation in his head when he lies on one side which can lead to a complete 'loss of his faculties'.
18	Case 1623	Case of Mrs Langton, a patient of Dr Heysham's who is 'strongly threatened with a Phthisis'.
19	Case 1687	Case of Miss Sykes, a young woman debilitated by a disorder which manifests in various feverish symptoms.
20	Case 1689	Case of Andrew Syme who suffers from pain in his head.
21	Case 1780	Case of Mr Darrell who has various symptoms including a skin complaint, a cold, feverishness and a nephritic condition.
22	Case 1803	Case of Miss Cook, of the Gallowhill family, who is feared to be phthisical.
23	Case 1834	Case of 'little John Hamilton', also known familiarly as Master ' Jackie' or 'Jackey', the infant son of John Hamilton-Dundas of Westburn. The boy suffers from 'eruptions' or 'tumours' resembling smallpox, which recur on his feet.
24	Case 1864	Case of James Brown who has a chest complaint and is advised to sail to Madeira.
25	Case 1886	Case of Mrs Wilson, wife of a grocer, who has a cough.
26	Case 1887	Case of Dr Charles Keith who has a chest complain with coughing and spitting up blood.
27	Case 1911	Case of Mrs Whitehead who visits Cullen in person for a menstrual disorder.
28	Case 1914	Case of Thomas Hamilton who has pains and spasms in the side and trouble walking.
29	Case 1923	Case of Mr Black with a disease of the urethra.
30	Case 1941	Case of James Collier, a student at Cambridge, who has been left emaciated by a severe cough and 'hectic' [indicative of consumption], for which, on the advice on London physicians, he has moved the Weymouth and hopes to winter in Nice.
31	Case 2031	Case of Mr Stewart of Shambelly [Shambellie] who is advised to got to Buxton for his health but later develops a chest complaint exacerbated by anxiety over family matters.
32	Case 2037	Case of Miss Wilson who wants to take precautions against developing her former menstrual disorder.
33	Case 2112	Case of Lady Banff who has various symptoms attributed to a 'weakness and laxity of her system'.
34	Case 2116	Case of Captain Baillie who has a stomach disorder and a pectoral complaint.
35	Case 2236	Case of Miss Margaret McKinnon whose disease is thought to be 'entirely rheumatic'.
36	Case 2264	Case of Captain Campbell who has developed eye problems.
37	Case 2287	Case of Colonel St Clair who has erysipelas, an ear discharge and boils.
38	Case 2294	Case of Mr Sanderson, the brother of the vicar of Morpeth, who 'has a diabetes'.
39	Case 2303	Case of an unnamed male patient reported to Henry Cullen as labouring 'under the most obstinate Gonorrhoea I ever met with'.
40	Case 2317	Case of A. Sandilands who cannot stand any noise.
41	Case 2337	Case of Captain John Enys.
42	Case 2340	Case of Mrs Lyell who has a urinary disorder.
43	Case 2359	Case of the Revd Matthew Surtees who since his youth has suffered from what he calls hectic and nervous irritability.
44	Case 2452	Case of an unnamed male patient with gout.
45	Case 2499	Case of Miss Marr, who has a cough and a knee ailment.
46	Case 2553	Case of Alexander Hamilton who 'by Idleness and almost Constant Drinking had beggared himself'.
47	Case 2567	Case of Dr William Cullen. This links together some significant instances where Cullen mentions in passing his own illhealth, and letters in which his son Henry, standing in to respond to patients, mentions his father's increasing indisposition and terminal decline from late 1789 (not fully comprehensive).
48	Case 2569	Case of Mr McLeod at Murkle, marked XYZ at his instruction and sent to Cullen by Dr Sinclair (but this document untraced).