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    DEP/DUA/1/31/01 (Transcript version)

    Mary Key

    (1782-1783)


    No14. Mary Key at 32

    has a large protuberant swelling on the left arm attended with severe pains heat & redness. This tumour discharged some matter about six months ago & seems again tending to suppuration. She was affected with Ozena about five years ago & lost some bones of her nose. She has never had any sore throat of long standing but has been troubled with violent headachs which she has found to alternate with the affection of her arm. She finds both the one & the other aggravated in cold weath.

    P. above 100, full. Tongue natural

    Belly & Catamenia regular.

    When the pains are violent they frequently prevent her from sleep impair her appetite & excite thirst.

    Her general health is at other times good.

    The pain in her arm began four years ago & has suffered many remissions & exacerbations. Some time since, while her arm was weak & sore the ulna was broken & dislocated, from lifting a very moderate weight & she thinks it has never been properly set. Her headachs have sometimes been attendd with dimness of sight. She had never any glandular swellings of the neck.

    She has a brown complexion & is apparently of a strong habit of body.

    She denies any venereal infection.

    She was a patient in the Infirmary for the affection of her head for which she was blistered & had leeches applied to the temples & took the bark without receiving any benefite. She has rubd her arm with the spirit of wine & camphor without any considerable relief of the pain. She has never taken mercury, drank sea water, or used cold sea bathing.

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