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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
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Ref NoMS 3027/11
TitleJournal of Jonathan Troup: October to December 1792
DateOctober - December 1792
ExtentPages 234 - 271
Creator NameJonathan Troup (c1764 - 1799), physician, of Aberdeen, Scotland and Dominica, West Indies
DescriptionJournal of Jonathan Troup: October - December 1792

He made notes from 'Travels in Switzerland' by William Coxe (London 1789)

He syringed the ears of a half witted countryman

He heard comments that the people in the county are surprised that he is not coming round and visiting them like his predecessor, Dr Stewart, did. Troup views this as 'amusement to other people and fatigue to myself'.

He made notes from Dr Cullen's lectures

He treated a girl with nervous headache with palsy of her right eye and lid

He treated an old woman with erysipelatus swelling

He made a rupture belt for a 3 year old boy

He listed the girls that he says he will chose a wife from and goes on to describe his courtship of Miss R Fraser

He renounced 'Finzean's' subscription

Miss Fraser's brother has paraphymosis

He treated a woman who has a fever from a cold

John Patterson is unwell. Troup lists his symptoms (pages 246and 247)

He wrote a second lot of letters to Mr Lovelock and Dr Clark and stated that he didn't send the first. A few days later, he burned the second two letters and vowed on his knees at midnight that he will give his life in Cromar until May before going to London or the West Indies. He then drafted an advert of his services for when he is in London and another letter to Dr Clark in the West Indies. A day later, he is unsure whether to send off the third letter he had drafted to Dr Clark and determined that he would go to London in January unless prevented by Miss Fraser. Later, he wrote and sent the fourth draft of a letter to Dr Clark

He made notes from 'Sympathy of Souls' by Weiland German

He treated a 22 year old girl for Fluor Album

He made notes on small pox

He made notes on Prof Malacame of Pavia on the Brain

He noted that warming the feet induces sleep

He treated a 74 year old man with rheumatism (page 252)

He copied out some poems

He treated Ann Cromar for consumption (page 256)

He read Knox's 'Essays Moral and Literary'

He made notes from 'On the Injustice of Publick Papers'

He treated a man aged 50 with obstruction of bowels

He attended the funeral of a girl who died from mercury

He treated a case of Lues Venera

He gave the words to the Beggar's Opera song and 'Over the Hills and Far Away' and 'Bonnie Bet'

He read 'An apology for the life of George Anne Bellamy, late of Covent Garden Theatre' written by herself in 6 volumes (London 1789)

He treated a boy with a sore throat

Nelly Forbes told him that she is with child to him

He saw a 40 year old man suffering from fits and makes notes on fate in marriage regarding the marriage this man

He read Dr Monro's lectures, Boswell's '_______ to the Hebrides with Dr S Johnson' and Home's Tragedy of Douglas Sincerity

He read Zeluco's 'Various views on Human Nature from Life and Manners Foreign and Domestic' (2 volumes, London 1789)
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