DEP/DUA/1/30/04 (Normalised version)

Ann Saunders

1782

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November 8^th 1782

N^o2. Ann Saunders at 40, married

A washer woman, has an eruption of large red pimples on her arms legs & thighs, which fall off in scales, & are succeeded by similar ones which run the same course. She has no other complaints. Pulse, Belly & menses Regular, Tongue natural.

She has for seven years been very corpulent, but was formerly slender.

This change took place on her returning from the West Indies, where she lived eleven years. She finds no inconvenience from it & her health is in no degree injured by it. She is the mother of fourteen children.

The eruption began four or five months ago soon after the death of her last child, who was sucking at the breast, & died of the smallpox. Her breasts were first affected by it, afterwards the trunk of her body.  But these parts are now free from it.

She has not been formerly subjected to any eruptive complaints.

Since the present symptoms appeared she has washed the parts affected with salt water & taken purging medicines without relief.

She has been nearly a month a patient at the Dispensary, where she has used Antimony crude ppt. internally & a saturnine solution externally with some advantage.