DEP/DUA/1/34/33 (Normalised version)

Christian Bell

1784

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No37. March 18^th 1784

Christian Bell at 32 complains of pain & distension of her stomach attended with acid eructations. She is frequently affected during the day with pains in each temple & in the back part of her head attended with giddiness & dimness of sight. During this time her eyes are observed to be much agitated. She is subject also to lowness of spirits & has two or three times in the day the sense of a ball rising from her stomach to her throat. It remains there a considerable time & affects her breathing & spirits, it afterwards ceases gradually.

Since the commencement of her ailments she has had several children & her menses have been more abundant than natural during that period. During the late frost, she was seized every day or every second day with universal tremblings & the fingers of both hands were drawn inwards. Pulse about 80 & weak. Appetite bad, Belly natural.

Cap bis indies Infus. Amar ℥i.

nec non sumat om. m. Pil

Foetid cum Aloe. grV

27. Has in general had three or four stools from each of the pills. She has taken the mixture as directed & since she began these medicines she has been very little distressed with the pain of her stomach, vertigo & globus hystericus. But she is still affected with flying pains through different parts of her body particularly in her legs & head.

Cont. Infus. Amar. u. a.

Interm Pil. Foetid cum Aloe & cap

Pil. Foetid simp. grV om. m.

10. The pill Foetid have purged her even more than those with the aloes & she has had one very severe attack of pain in her stomach since the last report. She is now entirely free from the globus hystericus but still complains of flying pains in different parts of her body particularly in her feet where they often continue very severe even for the course of a day.

Interm Med. &

Rx Calc. Zinci grV

Magnes. Alb. gr X. M

cap dos. bis indies.