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

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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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George

Time admitted June 29th

Persons Names T. Davies

Age 16

Symptoms

He complains of pain in his Side with cough, he had a blow a long time Since, but this we think is not the cause, we rather think it is an inflamation of the Liver he is ordered squills as a pectoralthe chief thing we depend on is to keep up.

Medicines Prescribed

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Isaacs

Time Admitted June 29th

Persons Name T. Ellis

Age

Symptoms Has got a Palsy which has came on gradually until he lost the use of his lower extremities, he has now a degree of Stupor & dimmness of sight a Seton is ordered in his neck.

Medicine

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Isaacs

Time admitted June 29th

Persons Names Dan William

Age

Symptoms Has got an inflam. or ulceration of his bladder. The Disease came on graduall & most probably there has been an inflame or thickening of the coats of his bladder it frequently happens that calcerous connecting gather in the coats of the bladder, and therefore we give Vol Alhol and endeavour to take off the granulus of the urine by G mat [?] the thing is a common case but commonly fatal.

Medicines prescribed The Lixio Lithontup The munlago Nephrit

Re Infus Lenit propotion

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