Letter 0024

Patient Details

• Patient info
  Name: N/A Arabela Eyre
  Gender:
  Age:has had onset of menses.
• Description

  had menses stopped for six months and swelling in legs for six weeks or longer. Wind in stomach, with vomiting. No appetite.

• Diagnosis
• Treatment
  Previous Treatment:

  For cessation of menses: bathing twice a day in warmed spirits of wine for three weeks, along with marshmallow ointment. Took purges of Cream Tarter; Elixer proprietani; mercurial purges; Ethiope mineral [illegible]; tinct. Mellampodin in balm water; bitter infusion

  
  Ongoing Treatment:

  purges of Cream Tarter; bitter infusion. f. 99 is also a detailed prescription for Mrs Arabela Eyres by J.M.

  
  Response:

  Bathing in warmed spirits of wine and the marshmallow ointment made the humour transfer from one leg to the other. The purges of Cream Tarter agreed with her well and made her hungry. The mercurial purges, Ethiope mineral [illegible] and tinct. Mellampodin in balm water, disagreed with her stomach and so was stopped. Her stools, twice daily, were soft ever since the latter treatment. She was very sick and vomited each day. Described pain as "weight like a beark down in the privy parts."

• More information
• Medical problem reference
  Genitals, Menstrual, Pain, Stomach