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    DEP/DUA/1/33/23 (Normalised version)

    Peggy Grant

    1783


    No12. November 28. 1783

    Peggy Grant at 10, of a pale complexion, discharges about four stools in the course of every 24 hours. She has pains in her belly breast & head, which recur by fits & are very distressing. Appetite bad. She is sometimes sick

    Belly not swelled. This affection has continued for fourteen days in its present form & violence. She knows no cause for her complaint & has passed no worms.

    Cap. Pulv. Ipecac gr X pro. Emet. nec non Rx Sue. Japon. Cort Cessia aa ℥i. Affuende Ag. buliens ℥ IV digere per horam, dein cola & [colatana] adde Syr. Simp. ℥ i cap. ℥ p ter de die

    5 The vomit operated well & [she] has taken the mixture as directed

    She has now seldom more than two stools in the day & these are of a more natural appearance

    She is free from the pain of her belly breast & head Appetite good

    Cont. Inf. Japon u. a

    13. The looseness is entirely gone & she is free from all her other symptoms.

    Dismissed cured

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