Letter 3012

Patient Details

• Patient info
  Name: N/A John Plowden
  Gender:
  Age:11 years old.
• Description

  Stephens is consulting on the boy's case. He understands that Sloane is the principal physician.

• Diagnosis

  Bedwetting.

• Treatment
  Previous Treatment:

  Sloane prescribed medicines and therapies for the boy.

  
  Ongoing Treatment:

  Stephens suggests the boy should be given medicines in a different manner, 'in Pills, Powders or what other Form you think more proper', or he will not get better. He recommends 'Cold bathing to strengthen the Parts outwardly & a decoction of the drying and strengthening Woods inwardly mix'd with other Medicines I have known to be sometimes serviceable in such Cases'. Stephens will wait for Sloane's direction before changing the boy's regimen.

  
  Response:

  The medicines Sloane prescribed 'have given him [John Plowden] such a loathing not only to them [the medicines] but also to almost any manner of food as well as Physick'.

• More information
• Medical problem reference
  Bedwetting, Urinary