The Cullen Project | People [PERS ID:82]

People [PERS ID:82]

Field	Data
ID	82
Title	Mr
First Name	William
Middle Name/Initial(s)
Last Name	Ingham
Maiden Name
AKA
Gender	Male
Occupation	Surgeon (at Newcastle)
Medical Professional?	Medical Professional

Birth/Death

Birth/Death
Birth (year)	1753
Date of death (year)	1817

Notes


A reputable surgeon, originally from Whitby, North Yorkshire. Apprenticed to the Newcastle surgeon Richard Lambert aged 13 and eventually became his profossional partner. Consulted Cullen over a substantial number of cases, including his own, from 1777 onwards and he also reported on autopsies. In 1778 he was appointed to Newcastle Infirmary, which Lambert had helped found in 1751.

Cases that this person appears in:

Count	Case ID	Case Name
1	Case 52	Case of Miss Mary Peareth who has a painful bladder condition.
2	Case 53	Case of Miss Barbara Peareth who is thought to have an internal abdominal tumour.
3	Case 54	Case of Miss H. Peareth whose bowel disorder proves to be worms.
4	Case 55	Case of Miss Harrison who is scorbutic.
5	Case 193	Case of Miss Mary Clutterbuck whose cough and other breathing problems are diagnosed as signs of 'hysteria'.
6	Case 648	Case of Mr Drysdale declining from a feverish chest complaint and 'a putrid ulcer in his chest'.
7	Case 691	Case of Miss Furie (Furye) who has a weak chest and who is given general advice on sustaining her health over the winter. She first consulted Cullen about four years earlier (c. 1772), but no evidence traced.
8	Case 747	Case of Mr Ralph Bates who has rheumatic pains and a liver and bowel complaint which proves fatal.
9	Case 784	Case of Miss Frances Simpson who is treated for an overian tumour under the immediate care of the surgeon Richard Lambert.
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 1051	Case of Mr Wallis who suffers from a unremitting pain in his head which Cullen attributes to excess blood on the brain.
12	Case 1195	Case of Mrs Stephenson (Stevenson) who has a sore throat, breathing and other chronic complaints.
13	Case 1272	Case of Mr John Surtees who has asthma and erysipelas on his hands and face.
14	Case 1382	Case of Mrs Ward who has a skin 'eruption' on her face.
15	Case 1492	Case of Mr Hudson who has weak lungs.
16	Case 1572	Case of Miss Ellison who suffers from a number of conditions including costiveness, a nervous complaint in her head and an inflamed eye.
17	Case 1657	Case of Mr Ingham, the Newcastle surgeon, who has a weakness of his lung considered temporary.
18	Case 1715	Case of Mr Henry Collingwood of Cornhill who in 1784 had recently suffered 'a fit and fell off his chair'; then in 1789 he asks about taking Buxton water.
19	Case 1761	Case of Mr Ellison whose complicated complaints stem from a gouty disposition.
20	Case 1812	Case of Mrs Middleton struck with rheumatic pains in her chest and stomach.
21	Case 1837	Case of Catherine Davidson whose health is fully restored after following Cullen's earlier advice but who wants to know if she should start using a shower bath after the winter.
22	Case 1906	Case of Miss Wilson experiencing 'a peculiar kind of fit' rendering her insensible. Possibly sister of Ann Wilson (Case:1907). Both at Newcastle), but Cullen writes two district replies on 13 November.
23	Case 2017	Case of Miss Bell who has epilepsy.
24	Case 2084	Case of Miss Elizabeth Harrison who is delicate with 'weak nerves'.
25	Case 2220	Case of the Revd. Mr John Ellison who has a rectal disorder.
26	Case 2240	Case of Mr Tweedale [Tweedell], who has a weak, painful hand, which 'most probably proceeds...from long exposure to Cold, & the weight of the Gun rested on the parts, in the course of 20 years shooting'.
27	Case 2265	Case of Miss Grey of Bamburgh who 'is in a dangerous way'. Cullen is sent several requests and offers of large fees to travel to Bamburgh, but he is 'indisposed'.
28	Case 2267	Case of Mr Maxwell who has water on the breast.
29	Case 2271	Case of Miss Ward, a child with some kind of mental impairment.
30	Case 2341	Case of [Mrs?] J. Tweeddell [Tweedale]. who has a weak stomach.
31	Case 2554	Case of Miss Blacket only known from Cullen's brief apology for his late reply.
32	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).