DEP/DUA/1/37/03 (Transcript version)

Rachael Drummond

(1785)

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N^o23. Decr 18 1784

Rachael Drummond at 59

Is affected with considerable swelling in her legs and thighs particularly the right. This swelling pits on pressure & is most considerable towards evening the parts returning nearly to their natural size in the morning after she has been in an horizontal posture during the night.

Pulse & heat natural. Respiration free, Urine in small quantity. Belly usually bound. But since Tuesday last she has been subjected to a spontaneous diarrhoea having had about six stools every 24 hours.

This affection first began with a swelling in her face, particularly about her right eye, which she first perceivd some weeks ago. That appearance is now gone, but since that the swelling of her legs has been gradually augmented. She knows no cause to which this complaint can be attributed & has used no medicines

Rx. Pulv. Crem. Tart. ℥ii

Cort. Cassiae ℥ii. M

cap coch parv. bis indies nec non sumat om. m. Pil. Scillit gr V

25 Urine considerably encreased since the use of the powders & pills & the swellings, are much fallen.

Cont. Med. u. a.

Janr 1. Has in general two or three stools every day & the quantity of her urine is much encreasd

The swelling is very considerably diminishd. But there is still some pitting on pressure about the ancles.

Cont. Pulv. Crem Tart. om. m. & Pil. Scillit. om. m. nec non

Cap bis indies Pulv. Cort. Per. ℥p.

8. Her swellings are entirely gone & she is free from all her other symptoms.

Let her be dismissd.