DEP/DUA/1/29/23 (Normalised version)

Daniel Riddell

1782

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Daniel Riddell at 18^th

May 22^d 1782

Has a sore on the metatarsus of the right foot which is considerably inflamed & has suppurated. This suppuration is attended with a very disagreeable smell & a swelling of the adjacent parts especially the ankle.

All the functions natural

About five years since his foot was run over by a cart wheel, for a year after which it continued only swelled and not painful. But soon after it inflamed & suppurated & since that it has remained a running sore.

He has long been a patient in the Infirmary¹ which he left about eight days ago, and was ordered to Leith for the bathing in the sea, and drinking sea water. But he thinks his foot has been rather worse since that time. When in the Infirmary he had a poultice & took the bark thrice a day.

Rx. Pulv. Rad Mezer. grii.

Cort. Peruv. ℥p.

M. cap dos. om. m. & vesp

[Curet]. ulcus. Ungt Saturn & Illin pars. affecta. Ol. Camph.

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Explanatory notes:

1) The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, established in 1729.