DEP/DUA/1/44/09 (Transcript version)

Binny Bullock

(1788)

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N^o9. Binny Bullock at 15.

In this case a second examp. of Epilep.

And although in some resp. consid diff. from that of Jacob Robertson yet cannot be said to occur with any remark peculiar.

And these two cases with resp. to freq. of fits as well as preced & concom. circum. merely exhib comm varieties occur in this disease.

This pat. as will obs. from hist of case once before under care for same affect.

Then recourse had to same remed which have now empl.

Before began med had two fits.

But afterw. no return of it.

This however could not consider as any strong proof of benef. from med.

Is not indeed imposs. that without use might have had more fits.

But no less prob. that in this way nothing to be ascribd to them.

That disease affect of some accid cause which had of itself ceased to oper.

Or that was a modif of Epilep in which fits return only after very long interv.

As for ex. eight ten or twelve months.

And from now again returning this last of the two most prob. conj.

But whatever be real case, when disease thus sudden ceases much less pres. of artif cure, than where under use of med, fits grad begun less freq & less severe till altog cease.

On pres. occas improb. that recurr. somehow conn. with state of menst.

For no doubt that with many females epilep as well as hyster. aff. are conseq. of morb. condit of uterine disch.

And from this presumpt that return of affect will now be more freq.

At least if menstr. evac. does not occur in regul & period manner.

Hence then may lead to use of some emmen, with view to comb. Epilep.

But in mean time have had rec to formr remed. the Pil e Cupro.

And these shall prob. at least contin till next or perhaps even succ. menst. period.

If other pract then necess. will be regul. by situat in which shall find pat.