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    DEP/DUA/1/36/14 (Transcript version)

    Alexander Ross

    1784


    No7 Novr 6. 1784

    Alexr Ross at 20 complains of great pain in the fore part of his head from one temple to the other. At times it is accompanied with vertigo & stupor. Since the commencement of this affection, he has found a great deficiency in the senses of vision & hearing, which is often attended with tinnitus aurium. The pain of the head is not fixd for any length of time but is continually moving on an horizontal direction across the forehead. From the time of rising in the morning till about twelve at noon he generally finds himself pretty easy but after this period it begins gradually to encrease till about six in the evening when it is most excruciating.

    Appetite impaired. Pulse 89 Belly regular.

    He has been troubled with this complaint for upwards of four months. When he was first attackd with it he was employd at his usual occupation of a labourer in a quarry which subjected him to the necessity of being often in a stooping posture.

    He can assign no other cause for this complaint, & he has taken no medicines before his admission into the Dispensary. Since that time, he has employd blisters issues, powder of Valerian, Bark Opium & several other medicines but without any matterial benefite.

    Excitat fontic ex [Occuput.] & cap. Pil. Theb. gr V om m. & gr X om. m.

    13. There is a free discharge from his issue & he has taken the pills regularly without any inconvenience. The pain of his head is considerably relievd. He sleep well during the night. Belly regular, appetite tolerably good.

    Cont. Fontic & Pil. Theb. u. a

    sed cap gr X om. m. & vesp.

    20 There has been but little discharge from the issue since the last report. He has taken his pills regularly, but his headach is much aggravated.

    Belly natural, appetite much diminishd. Cont. Pil. Theb.

    sed cap. gr XV om. m. & vesp. nec

    non repet. vesic ut. f. fontic

    u. a.

    27. There is now a free discharge from the issue. He has taken his pills regularly & his head is somewhat easier.

    Pulse 80 belly bound.

    Interm. Pil. Theb. Cont. Fontic

    & cap. Pil. Aloet. gr V om. m

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