Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846. Diary of diseases then at St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, 1775. B MS b10.3, Countway Library of Medicine.
Notebook contains kept by Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846) while he was attending medical lectures and studying at St. Thomas's Hospital in London, England, in 1775. Waterhouse's notes include lists of symptoms to be attended to in all cases, such as checking the pulse, eyes, tongue, and urine, as well as charts of patient case histories, with the time admitted, name, age, symptoms, and medicines administered.
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Time admitted | Persons Names | Age | Symptoms | Medicines prescribed |
June 1st
| Elizabeth Parara | 34 | Was siezed with Hemiplegia. She cannot eat from great difficulty of swallowing. She can neither move one side nor speak. her eyes has a stupid look, her pulse is frequent & small there seems to be no necessity of making Evacuations for all the mischief that extravasalm occassions is done already therefore stimulating medicines are [addend]
| Rx. Vol. Alk. gr xo. ter die sumend. Epiapas. Nuch. Brach it femar applie. |
2d
| ... | ... | The Blisters rise well. not much alteration can be perceved | ... |
3d
| ... | ... | She seems better today & takes more notice when spoken to | ... |
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5th
| ... | ... | Can speak & move her fingers | ... |
7th
| ... | ... | She can move her arm & seems in other respects much better | ... |
8th
| ... | ... | Better still continues the Vol [lilk.]
| ... |
10th
| ... | ... | Can set up & eats with good appetite | ... |
14th
| ... | ... | Walks about the ward & seems to complain of nothing but weakness | ... |
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Time admitted | Persons Names | Age | Symptoms | Medicines prescribed |
June 14th
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[Aenn] Willium | 36 | He has a violent Rheumatism for which he was bleed largely and at present he has great pain & swelling in his wrist & ancles with the common symptoms of fever. | ... |
June 15th
| ... | ... | his pain is no better, but swelling reather [increased] very restless this night. | Rx. Emp. Enithas |
June 16th
| ... | ... | his pain & swelling so far increased as [par..able] to feel his pulse. seems to be [un....selly] in pain he is ordered a blister whose inatation & [s..pos] keeps up the pain | ... |
June 17th
| ... | ... | He his slept badly & been delerious thro the night and every symptom seems increased his pulse is frequent but his wrists to swelled that one cannot judge accuratly every thing puts in an alarming appereance | ... |
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18 | ... | ... | In very great destress his breathing is short & laborrous, his eys red & [sired], delirium at times & a swelling a cross the part of his stomach he has a ratling in his throat like a dying person | ... |
19th
| ... | ... | Died. he was very weak 8 or 10 hours before he died but when he approach'd towards his end he was so convlsed & delerious as searsly to be kept in bed & dies in great agonies. | ... |
... | ... | ... | Dr F thinks that large bleeding hurt him and that it was an almost [une..sal] inflamation. but at last there was a [Milastasir] to the brain which carryed him off in this raging delirium. he says it was the most violent disorder of the kind he ever saw | ... |
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Time admitted | Persons Names | Age | Symptoms | Medicines prescribed |
June 29th
| Elizabeth Anderson | ... | has got swelling in the region of the Liver with pain she thinks her disorder lies in her Liver. She has not menstrated since delivery | ... |
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| ... | ... | her pain seems to be something like [Rhumatie] sometimes in her shoulder, legs & | Rx. Haust. Volat hora somni |
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