Colonial North America: Countway Library of Medicine
Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846. Diary of diseases then at St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, 1775. B MS b10.3, Countway Library of Medicine.

(seq. 6)

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Veena at Mar 27, 2024 11:27 PM

(seq. 6)

Abraham's

Time Admitted	Persons Names	Age	Symptoms of Disease	Medicines prescrib'd
June 8^th	Jam^s. Eckley	16	Was seized (four days ago) suddenly as one would think would arise from a violent & sudden exertion of muscular strength he complained of violent pain in the back & shoulders, he has now a cough with great difficulty of respiration with a Diarrhea or reather a Dysentery he has a pain in his limbs like an acute Rheumatism . Dr F. thinks there is a Phlegmon in his lungs, so that in this complicated case we have to combat with a Diarhea, Rheumatism & Peripeumony. It might be supposed that the sudden exposure to the cold after being very hot occasioned contraction of the vessels of the surface & consequently threw the greatest quantity of fluids to the centre	Rx. Bol. Rhei capiat hora somni V.S. ℥X [10 ounces]

(seq. 6)

Abraham's

Time Admitted	Persons Names	Age	Symptoms of Disease	Medicines prescrib'd
June 8^th	Jam^s. Eckley	16	Was seized (four days ago) suddenly as one would think would arise from a violent & sudden exertion of muscular strength he complained of violent pain in the back & shoulders, he has now a cough with great difficulty of respiration with a Diarrhea or reather a Dysentery he has a pain in his limbs like an acute Rheumatism . Dr F. thinks there is a Phlegmon in his lungs, so that in this complicated case we have to combat with a Diarhea, Rheumatism & Peripeumony. It might be supposed that the sudden exposure to the cold after being very hot occasioned contraction of the vessels of the surface & consequently threw the greatest quantity of fluids to the centre	Rx. Bol. Rhei capiat hora somni V.S. ℥X [10 ounces]