DEP/DUA/1/16/15 (Normalised version)

Alexander Campbell

(1777-1778)

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Case of next patient Alexander Campbell might afford room for many remarks.

Into these however cannot now propose to enter.

May only in general remark that affection evidently of cutaneous kind.

And when came under our care very [suspicious] that would have proved more obstinate than was found to do.

In treatment employed chiefly two remedies.

The soluble Tartar as gentle refrigerant cathartic.

And Decoction of Elm bark.

A remedy which had formerly occasion to observe of late highly extolled.

Present one of few cases in which have myself used it.

And must own that here disposed to ascribe to it no inconsiderable part of cure.

Its efficacy however hope soon to be able to ascertain by some trials which have already begun & which will probably lead me to speak of it more fully in Summer course.