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    DEP/DUA/1/47/26 (Transcript version)

    Jean Thomson

    1789


    No18 Decr 10th 1789

    Jean Thomson at 20, complains of severe pain in her back & stomach, attended with cough & slight dyspnoea. She is also at times affected with cold fits & her strength is much diminishd. Her menstrual discharge takes place in unusual quantity, seldom continuing for less than eight days at a time. It returns also at shorter intervals than natural, being sometimes absent only for eight days, & seldom for more than three weeks.

    Pulse 60 & soft. Tongue clean belly regular. Appetite much impaird.

    The frequent recurrence of her menses in unusual quantity, has continued for three years past, & she does not know, to what cause it is to be attributed. Her other complaints have gradually superveend, since the commencement of the excessive menstruation

    She has used no remedies

    Rx. Spt. Vitr. Ten. Tinct. Theb aa

    Aq. Font. ℥ IV Mucil. G. Arab ℥p

    M. cap. ℥p ter de die.

    Decr 12th

    Has taken her mixture as directed, but thinks that it occasions some uneasiness at stomach. The discharge which began on Wednesday last, has been rather more excessive than usual & still continues. Cont. Mist. u. a. &

    Rx. Pulv. Alum.

    - Suc. Japon.

    - Cort Cassia aa gr V

    M cap. dos. [ejusm] cum singulis

    dosibus misturae.

    19

    The discharge was somewhat diminishd after the use of the powders,

    But it continued in some degree till Thursday last, since which she is rather easier.

    Cont. Med. u. a.

    Janr 2d 1790

    Her menstrual discharge began on Thursday last, at the distance only of a forthnight, from the last evacuation. It is attended with rather more pain than usual, & is still as large as before.

    Cont. Med. u. a. & cap.

    om. n. h. som. Pil. Theb. gr. X

    9th

    The discharge stopt on Monday last after continuing for rather a shorter time than usual. She complains much of the pain of her back, but in other respects she is rather easier.

    Cont. Med. u. a.

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