DEP/DUA/1/35/15 (Normalised version)

Peggy Duff

1784

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N^o8. May 22^d. 1784

Peggy Duff. at 15 is frequently troubled with trembling shaking & great pain of the head which are attended with vertigo lassitude & a total aversion to go about any work. She complains of great uneasiness at her breast & difficulty of breathing which are accompanied with cough & expectoration. When she begins to cough & expectorate she then always finds the pain of her breast much aggravated.

Her mother supposes the above complaints to have originated from a fall which she received about six years ago, from the top of a pretty high wall, as she has never since that time been in perfect health. She was then much bruised by her fall both on the back part of her head & in her Thorax.

Appetite & Pulse irregular which is also the case with respect to the menstrual discharge. Belly at times somewhat bound.

Her present symptoms have continued with her more or less ever since the fall to which they are attributed.

No medicines have of late been taken for these complaints, but she was in the Infirmary¹ for the injury she received from the fall, from which she apparently recovered in no long time.

Cap. Pil. Foetid gr V om. m.

May 29. Has in general had several loose stools from every pill

All her symptoms still continue as severe as before & her mother thinks that the fits of shaking are rather aggravated.

Interm Pil. Foetid. &

Rx. Pulv. Valer. Sylv. Ji

Cal. Zinci gr V M cap

dos bis indies

12^th Had severe pains in her breast after taking the first powder but the same consequence has not been observed to follow from any of those taken since, & her symptoms are now somewhat alleviated. Appetite & belly natural

Cont. Pulv. Valer. Sylv. cum calc. Zinci. u. a.

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Explanatory notes:

1) The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, established in 1729.