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    DEP/DUA/1/34/39 (Transcript version)

    Christian Stuart

    1784


    No40. March 26th. 1784

    Christian Stuart at 7. Has a slight swelling of her belly not discoloured & without any evident fluctuation.

    She has a short tickling cough returning two or three times in the day. It continues about ten minutes at a time & is attended with a sense of suffocation in her throat. She is then free from it for two or three days & it returns again exactly in the same form.

    During the fits her face is flushd & florid. At other times she is pale & low spirited. Appetite pretty good. Belly natural

    Ten weeks ago she lost her appetite & was very low spirited Appetite pretty good. Belly natural.

    Ten weeks ago she lost her appetite, was low spirited & frequently sick. These symptoms continued till she discharged a worm of the lumbricous kind.

    She then grew better & continued so for a forth night when her present disease superveend.

    She knows no cause for her complaints.

    Cap. om. m. & vesp. Pulv. Sem Santon. Ji. nec non sumat [mane] die Jovis Pulv. Jallap. comp. ℥ p.

    April 3d. Took the Sem Santon as directed, & the purgative afterwards which operated briskly.

    But no worms have been observed to be discharged. She is now however much less distressd with cough & the swelling of her belly is somewhat fallen.

    Interm. Med &

    Rx. Infus. Amar. ℥IV

    Tinct. Aromat. ℥i

    M cap. ℥p bis indies

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