DEP/DUA/1/36/10 (Normalised version)

John McDougall

1784

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N^o5 October. 29. 1784.

John McDougall at 23, complains of severe cough attended at times with disagreeable headache. The cough is generally much aggravated towards the evening & increases during the night to such a degree as to deprive him of rest. At bed time he is always attacked with intense cold & shivering fits, which most commonly continue till day break at which time a profuse sweat supervenes & remains for the space of two or three hours.

Belly generally costive, & at times he is affected with severe gripes, Appetite very good but he says the cough is often so severe, as to occasion the rejection by vomiting, of everything which is taken in, Pulse 80, Tongue rather white & he has a great craving for liquids.

About six weeks ago, he was first attacked with the above symptoms, at which time he was employed in harvest work in Cambridge-shire.

He complained first of troublesome pain across his loins, & in his head. These however were the only obvious symptoms for upwards of three weeks. But soon after that period the symptoms above described succeeded.

He can assign no cause for his complaint but was in a fenny part of the country at the commencement of his disease.

He has taken no medicine but a vomit & that without benefit