| Collection | GB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections |
| Level | Series |
| Ref No | MS 3027/15 |
| Title | Journal of Jonathan Troup: 25th of September 1793 to 7th of May 1794 |
| Date | 25th of September 1793 - 7th of May 1794 |
| Extent | Pages 342 - 357 |
| Creator Name | Jonathan Troup (c1764 - 1799), physician, of Aberdeen, Scotland and Dominica, West Indies |
| Description | Journal of Jonathan Troup: 25th September 1793 to 7th of May 1794
He visited Broomhill to find Miss Fraser is 'huffed' at him for requiring a written oath as to her virginity so he gives her up again. A few days later, he visited Broomhill but the door was shut in his face. He made several attempts to renew his acquaintance including sending her a letter (which she did not open and she scolded the girl who delivered it); sending her love songs; sending yet another letter asking her to marry him (she denies him and he learns that her mother is in a passion). He gave Miss Fraser until the 14th of April to think on her marriage to him and if not then 'he is off'. He sent her a picture 'naked of her self and her own hair all wrapped up in a pair of new garters and covered with 24 pieces of paper' but did not receive an immediate reply. A few days later, he send several poems and gifts to Miss Fraser. Some were returned with a note saying these were disagreeable to her. Troup sees this as proof of her innocence and again gives her until the 14th to respond to his offer of marriage
He saw a girl with dysapnea
He treated Mr Ross who has a pain in his breast and ague
He was called to see someone who was wounded in the head with an iron quarry crow
He saw a man aged 60 who has a pain in his right eye
He treated Mr Hunter from Jamaica with ague
He saw a young lad with small pox
He treated a man with herpetic venereal sores round his anus
He treated a child with tongue tie
He gave a vomit to a soldier who 'hurt himself with bad ale'
He bled the Millar's wife for an asthma attack
He treated two girls taken ill with heart sickness
He cut an excresence on an 80 year old man's cheek
He ruptured a swelling above the right kidney of a girl aged 16 who was 'old with a twisted spine'
300 men help in a search for a man with fits and falling sickness who has wandered away, he was not found
He treated a man who was badly bruised in a fall as he was trying not to be crushed by a millstone 2 weeks before. He later died
He attended a soldier with a bad fever
He answered an advert in the paper placed by a widow wanting a husband
He treated a 14 year old girl for fever
Mrs Gordon Belack's family are remaining with him to be treated for coughs He met Miss Harriet Stewart and believes he made an impression on her
He gave inoculations to his and Captain Stewart's natural daughters
He noted that on 30th of April, Martinique was taken by the English
He saw girl with a mark of redness on her left cheek, nose and eyes which was caused by sheeps blood thrown by her father at her mother while she was pregnant
He copied several miscellaneous notes and verses |
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