DEP/DUA/1/39/01 (Transcript version)

Katherine Hutton

1785

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N^o18. Decr 2^d 1785

Katherine Hutton at 26, an unmarried woman, complains of an almost constant Diarrhoea inducing extreme debility & interrupting her sleep during the night. She is often affected with severe pain through the whole tract of the alimentary canal attended with flatus, borborygmi & frequent attacks of sickness at stomach, & uneasiness at the praecordia.

Pulse about 70 & rather feeble

Tongue clean & moist. Great thirst. Appetite natural at present, but a little time ago it was much encreased. She sleeps very ill

Her menses have been absent about six months. And have been very irregular for four years past.

These complaints commenced about 12 years ago without any obvious cause. She has used no medicines. Her father was subject to bowel complaints for many years.

Cap. Pil. Theb. gr V om. m. & Rx. Pulv. Cretac ℥ p

Succ. Japon ℥ii M cap

coch parv. ter de die