DEP/DUA/1/40/45 (Normalised version)

Elizabeth Jardine

1786

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No5 November 3d 1786

Elizabeth Jardine at 16 with light hair & eyes, of an appearance rather delicate, & tall for her age has frequent cough & dyspnoea, with pretty free expectoration of a matter of a yellowish colour. She complains also of pain in her breast, in her loins & in the lower part of her belly.

She is also affected with the universal lassitude on the slightest exertion, & with frequent faintness & oppression about the praecordia.

She has frequent attacks of cold fits followed by heat & sweating & attended with headache & flushing of her cheeks. She particularly sweats much in the morning.

Pulse 146 & rather small, Appetite bad but she has considerable thirst. Skin at present cool. Tongue clean & moist, Belly regular. She has seen nothing of the menstrual discharge for these six months.

She was first attacked with the cough & pain of her back, about twelve months ago, when attending her brother who died of Phthisis.

The cough has continued since that time & the other symptoms have gradually supervened.

She has used no medicines.

Cap. Pulv. G. Myrrh. comp. coch parv bis indies.

November 10. The powders sit easily on her stomach & she is less distressed with the cough. Pulse 130 & very small. Cont. Pulv. G. Myr. u. a.

24 Has no inconvenience from the powders. Her cough is much diminished, & she is not now affected with the morning sweats. Belly regular. Appetite increased, & she complains less of weakness. Pulse 100

Cont. Med. u. a.

December 2. She has continued the powders regularly & her cough & other symptoms are much relieved.

Pulse 100 belly regular. But there is no return of the menstrual evacuation.

Cont. Pulv. G. Myrrh. ter de die u. a.