DEP/DUA/1/29/27 (Normalised version)

Cath Thomson

(1782)

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Cath Thomson At. 41.

May 22.

Has a soreness in both eyes with itching redness & inflammation of the palpebrae. Both the adnate are pretty clear & are now pretty equally affected. And they distil an acrimonious watery fluid which sometimes takes the skin off her cheeks. There is a manifest turgescence of the vessels in the neighbourhood of the eyes & she complains of pain in the neighbourhood of the [illegible] sinus which sometimes induces vertigo & to which she gives the name of Megrim. She has also sometimes pain in the temples & complains of cold & hot fits which sometimes occur two or three times in a day at no regular period. Pulse rather quick. Tongue & [respiration] natural. Belly at present regular but she is liable to diarrhoea from very slight occasional causes. Appetite good. Her Catamenia are regular but for these two years past have been in very small quantity. She is married but never had children she was subject to this complaint when a child & was once for 9 weeks quite [illegible] when about 14 years of age. She was then very corpulent was bled in the temporal artery & had a seton with great relief which was kept for three years. After that she had for five years an issue in the arm. She has never been free from this complaint altogether

She has frequently been blistered which she thinks heated her without giving relief to her eyes. Her complaints have been worse within these two years since her menses have been in small quantity. Has taken snuff these six months which she thinks has been of disservice to her. Her family have been subject to sore eyes.

[illegible] solut. Saturn pro Colyr & fiat setac nuchae. Cap etiam Pulv. Crem Tart. ℥ ibis indies

May 31. Complaints much relieved. Continue Medicine.