DEP/DUA/1/37/11 (Transcript version)

Janet Walker

1785

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N^o27 1 Janr 1785

Janet Walker at 36 complains of severe cough & violent pain in her right side which affects her respiration considerably. These complaints are aggravated in the night. Towards morning she sweats very much & in the afternoon is very hot & feverish.

Pulse 112 Appetite impaird Belly regular. Urine in smaller quantity than usual & she cannot retain it so long as formerly. Menses regular.

The cough & pain of her side are of twelve month standing & five weeks after the commencement of these complaints she was delivered of a dead child.

She can assign no cause for her disease.

She has taken lime water Castile soap, & the Peruvian Bark of her own accord. but without either encreasing or alleviating her complaints.

Rx. Pulv. G. Myrrh.

Crem Tart. aa ℥p.

M cap coch ter de die.