DEP/DUA/1/39/15 (Normalised version)

Sarah Allan

1785

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N^o25. December 30^th 1785.

Sarah Allan at 17 unmarried after taking food is always attacked with severe sickness, acid eructations & sometimes vomiting & when her stomach is empty she is distressed with a violent acute pain in the epigastric region, which is sometimes so great as to induce a tendency to syncope. She is liable at times to distension of the stomach & to gripes in the belly.

Pulse about 70 & pretty strong. Tongue, thirst & catamenia natural. Appetite as she says much more keen than natural.

These complaints have troubled her about seven weeks. They came on without any manifest cause & as far as she knows none of her relations were subject to stomach complaints. She says she is originally of an unhealthy constitution & has been subject for several years to complaints of the bowels.

She has used Emetics & Purgatives without relief.

Cap. Pulv. Ipecac Ji. pro Emet & Rx. Tinct. Aromat.

Amar

Ag. Menth. Pip aa ℥ ii

M cap. ℥p ter de die.

14 The vomit operated well & she has taken the mixture as directed. Her stomach complaints are upon the whole easier though she is still affected with pain when her stomach is empty & with uncommon keenness of appetite & gripes

Cont. Mist ter indies u. a.

sed cap om. m. & v. Pil. Theb. gr V

21. Stomach complaints considerably relieved. Cont. Med. u. a.

28. Stomach complaints rather worse. Cont. Med. u. a.

February 4. Is now very little affected with the sourness at stomach, vomiting or pain of her belly, but she complains of vertigo from the use of her mixture, & there is on both her arms a circumscribed eruption covered with whitish coloured scales.

Interm. Med. & cap 2[da] quag. nocte. Pil. Aloet gr V nec non Hab. Ungt. Vitriol ℥I illin [paux] bis indies p. app. aff.

February 25 The eruption on her arms is considerably mended since the application of the Unguent Vitriol

But she has taken none of the Pills for some time past. Since that her belly has been very bound & she has been much affected with vomiting

Cont. Pil Aloet & Ungt. Vitriol u. a. & Rx. Elix ex Aloe & Rheo Tinct Amar aa ℥ii M cap ℥p om. m.