DEP/DUA/1/34/39 (Normalised version)

Christian Stuart

1784

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N^o40. March 26^th. 1784

Christian Stuart at 7. Has a slight swelling of her belly not discoloured & without any evident fluctuation.

She has a short tickling cough returning two or three times in the day. It continues about ten minutes at a time & is attended with a sense of suffocation in her throat. She is then free from it for two or three days & it returns again exactly in the same form.

During the fits her face is flushed & florid. At other times she is pale & low spirited. Appetite pretty good. Belly natural

Ten weeks ago she lost her appetite, was low spirited & frequently sick. These symptoms continued till she discharged a worm of the lumbricus kind.

She then grew better & continued so for a fortnight when her present disease supervened.

She knows no cause for her complaints.

Cap. om. m. & vesp. Pulv. Sem Santon. Ji. nec non sumat [mane] die Jovis Pulv. Jalap. comp. ℥ p.

April 3^d. Took the Semen Santonica as directed, & the purgative afterwards which operated briskly.

But no worms have been observed to be discharged. She is now however much less distressed with cough & the swelling of her belly is somewhat fallen.

Interm. Med &

Rx. Infus. Amar. ℥IV

Tinct. Aromat. ℥i

M cap. ℥p bis indies