Letter 0209

Patient Details

• Patient info
  Name: N/A Unnamed Woman
  Gender:
  Age:
• Description
• Diagnosis

  Pain in the kidney and hypochondria. The kidney pain is new. It is not hard or distended. Urine is copious and well-coloured, so probably not nephritic.

• Treatment
  Previous Treatment:

  Asses milk and testaceous powders; soft and cooling diet; gargarisms and injections; issue in arm; purge once or twice weekly; blister to back; bleeding at foot.

  
  Ongoing Treatment:

  For kidney pain, applying fomentations, liniments and cataplasms. Internally, she is taking pilul. e Galb: Gum. Ammoniac. Sperm. Cet: millep. sal succin &c.

  
  Response:

  The patient "found very great relief as to the particular complaints mention'd in my [previous] letter". But she is now finding an unusual pain in left kidney extending into hypochondrium and affecting region of spleen. Any pressure causes "great pain & uneasieness, & sometimes a difficulty in breathing".

• More information
• Medical problem reference
  Kidney, Spleen, Menstrual, Hypochondria, Pain