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    DEP/DUA/1/33/17 (Transcript version)

    Niel Stuart

    1783


    No9. Novr 20th 1783

    Niel Stuart. at 30 a bleacher

    The sensation & power of motion in the left side of his body & in the extremities of the same side are considerably diminishd

    The pulse is weaker & smaller in the left arm than it is in the right. He complains of great confusion & giddiness in his head.

    He feels a sensation of heat in his stomach & sometimes vomit in the morning. The vertigo & sensation of heat are always aggravated before the vomiting Appetite almost gone.

    The headach & vomiting were the first symptoms with which he was affected. The imperfect sensation & weakness of voluntary motion followed in two or three days. The vomiting was formerly more troublesome than at present. These symptoms have continued about three months, & he attributes them to vicissitudes from heat to cold to which he is much exposed from his business.

    Cap. Pulv. Sem Sinap. coch ter indies.

    Novr 22 Has taken the Sem. Sinapi without any obvious operation. The affection of his side continues in the same state as before. Belly rather bound pulse 80 Cont. Sem. Sinap. u. a nec non accip indies ict. electr. IV ad grad 3 educantur etiam scintillae electricae e latere affecto

    Novr 29 Has continued the electricity as directed but the affection of his leg & arm continue much as before & he thinks that the pain of his head is rather aggravated. Belly regular, appetite natural. Contin Electric & Sim Sinap. u. artia. Nec non app. vesic much. & postea f. fontic ope Ungt. Episp.

    Decr. 6 There has been a free discharge from the blister, which is still supported by the issue ointment. But since the last report he has been daily affected with a febrile paroxism, which attacks him about two o’Clock in the afternoon & continues for eight or ten hours. He has not been electrified during the course of last week.

    Interm. Fontic Elect & Sem. Sinap. Cont. Fontic

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