DEP/DUA/1/32/04 (Transcript version)

Ann Mason

(1783)

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Ann Mason at 40. complain of severe cough, dyspnoea & difficult expectoration of white viscid matter of no bad taste or smell. These symptoms are particularly severe in the mornings & evenings She has no pain of breast. Pulse. Tongue, Appetite & Thirst natural. Belly costive

She sleeps well in general but her rest is sometimes interrupted by the cough & dyspnoea & when these symptoms are most severe she has sometimes profuse sweats.

She has been subject to pectoral complaints for several winters, but has been tolerably free from them during the summer months. They have been more severe this last winter & continued longer than they ever did before. She attributes them in some measure to cold and fatigue. She has taken no medicine except salts for obviating costiveness.

Cap. Pulv. Ipecac. Ji. pro Emet. nec non Rx. Pulv. Crem. Tart. Flor Sulph aa ℥ i. Syr. Simp. g. s. f. Elect. cujus. cap. coch parv. bis indies.

17. The vomit operated well & she has taken the electuary regularly which has had the effect of gently opening her belly. Her cough & dyspnoea are much diminishd. She sleeps tolerably but her appetite is indifferent.

Cont. Elect. u. a.

The electuary keeps her belly gently open. Her breathing is much easier & her cough also somewhat relievd. Cont. u. a.