DEP/DUA/1/39/29 (Transcript version)

Martha Anderson

1786

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N^o32. Febr 5. 1786

Martha Anderson at 19.

unmarried is constantly distressd with headach & is affected with a sense of weight & considerable pain under the sternum, encreasd by pressure & somewhat impeding respiration at times; she complains also of short cough in the morning. She is often troubled with cardialgia, acid eructations & sometimes with Flatulency. & she now & then feels a degree of globus hystericus rising to her stomach. She observes that her ancles & hands swell considerably at night. Pulse 65 of good strength. Thirst encreasd. Appetite impaird. Tongue clean, Belly regular, Catamenia have [hardy] appeard for three months past & have been very irregular ever since her first menstruation, which happened only two years ago. She does not now feel any molimina at her usual menstrual periods.

She has been troubled with the stomach complaints & headach for many years & says she has been rather unhealthy from her infancy though of healthy parents. Has used an Emetic with some relief.

Cap. Pil. Aloet gr V om m.

11^th The pills in general give her two stools in the day, there is no appearance of the menstrual discharge, & her other symptoms continue much as before particularly the sickness & sourness at stomach.

Cont. Pil. Aloet. & cap. bis ind. Pulv Cretac coch. parv.

11 The pills in general give her two stools in the day. There is no appearance of the menstrual discharge, & her other symptoms continue much as before particularly the sickness & sourness at stomach. Cont. Pil Aloet & cap bis indies. Pulv. Cretac coch parv.