DEP/DUA/1/39/25 (Normalised version)

Ann Hay

1786

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N^o30 January 21^st. 1786

Ann Hay at 47. a married woman complains of pains in the small of her back & sides great uneasiness with a sense of weakness & emptiness in the breast. She is subject to frequent attacks of complete syncope preceded by headache & vertigo & followed as she says by globus hystericus. Frequently on becoming warm in bed or when sitting by the fire, she is affected with a very copious reddish eruption over her whole body which on the least exposure to cold suddenly disappears & she is then much distressed with sickness & anxiety. Pulse about 70 & of good strength. Tongue clean, appetite gone, Thirst great belly very costive Catamenia absent for 7 years.

These complaints commenced about five years ago & were ushered in by a regular febrile paroxysm.

But they were much aggravated by a fall which she received on her back about a fortnight ago since which she has considerable difficulty & pain in voiding her urine. She imputes her complaints to cold. She was formerly healthy. Was blooded without relief but derived some benefit from a medicine which she took on the approach of her fits.

Cap. bis indies Pulv. Crem Tart comp. coch parv.

28. Has taken the powder as directed which has had the affect of opening her belly, & her sickness at stomach is much relieved. She has been affected with none of the fainting fits for this week past but she complains of considerable vertigo & her urine is still scanty & high coloured.

Cont. Pulv. Crem Tart. comp. u. a. & Rx. Calc. Zinci Mic. Pan aa ℥ i. f. mas divid in pil gr V cap iii. bis indies

February 4^th. When she began the use of the pills she was affected with severe vomiting, but since that, they have never occasioned even sickness at stomach & her complaints have been considerably easier. She complains however to day of some sickness & her belly is very bound.

Interm. Pulv. Crem Tart. Cont Pil ex Calce Zinci sed cap. dos mat. solummodo

Sumat. om. m. h. s. Pil. Foetid cum aloe. gr V

February 11 The Pill Foetid have purged her a little & she is now free from all her symptoms

Dismissed