DEP/DUA/1/32/16 (Normalised version)

William Davidson

1783

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N^o8^th May 22^d 1783.

William Davidson at 3. is affected twice or thrice in the day & seven or eight times during the night, with fits of difficult respiration in which he is obliged to make seven or eight inspirations, before he can make a full & free one. He has with this, now & then, a dry cough & frequent singultus after the paroxysm. But he never vomits or expectorates. His voice is hoarse & his respiration always somewhat laborious. He has a slight eruption of red inflamed pustules over different parts of his body.

Pulse slow & feeble. Skin rather hot, belly regular. He sleeps well except when awaked by the fits. Within this fortnight he has been very thirsty & his appetite has been impaired.

The dyspnoea occurred about the beginning of the new year. But he has not been in good health [since] last harvest. Before that time he was healthy, but has always been subject to eruptions.

24 Cap. Pulv. Ipecac. Gr V pro Emet. nec non sumat bis indies Mist. Oleos. ℥ p.

31 The vomit did not operate but produced looseness. He has taken the mixture as directed & his mother thinks that the fits of difficult respiration are less frequent, & less severe. Cont.

Mist Oleos. & Rx. Tart. Antim gr ii Ag. Font. ℥IV f. Solut. Cap. coch her. 6[ta] p. m. & resp. om. semihor. Donec vomuerit.

June 7^th Vomited from the second spoonful of the solution & the affection of respiration is considerably easier.

Cont. Mist. Oleos. u. a.