DEP/DUA/1/34/41 (Normalised version)

Donald Thomson

1784

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N^o41. March 26^th 1784

Donald Thomson. at 34, feels a constant sense of weight in his chest & debility of his body.

He has a slight cough & soreness during the day. But about nine P.M. he perceives a sense of pain weight & heat, in the right side under the short ribs & this sensation is afterwards extended from that part to the throat. He now has an irritation seemingly at the glotis which obliges him to cough. After this has continued violent for five minutes, some blood is coughed up. The night before last it was fluid & about a gill¹ in quantity. Last night at different times three or four lumps of grumous blood were coughed up.

Pulse 80 small & feeble. Appetite bad belly bound. He often sweats from the violence of the cough more particularly about the superior extremities.

About a month since he had a giddiness of his head, & three or four days afterwards he contracted a cold & sore throat. He was advised to take a vomit of Ipecacuanha some days after the sore throat began. The first dose not producing any sensible effect he took a second, which operated violently. And during its operation he discharged some clotted blood but he does not know whether by coughing or vomiting.

Cap. om. m. Pulv. Crem Tart coch parv. ii. nec non

Rx. Infus. Rosar.

Mucil. G. Arab. aa

Ag. Font. aa ℥ ii

Tinct. Theb. ℥i. M

cap. ℥p. ter de die.

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Explanatory notes:

1) Also written as jill. A unit of measurement for volume equal to a quarter of a pint.