| Collection | GB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections |
| Level | Series |
| Ref No | MS 3027/10 |
| Title | Journal of Jonathan Troup: July to September 1792 |
| Date | July - September 1792 |
| Extent | Pages 197 - 234 |
| Creator Name | Jonathan Troup (c1764 - 1799), physician, of Aberdeen, Scotland and Dominica, West Indies |
| Description | Journal of Jonathan Troup: July to September 1792
He attended a booking/contract of marriage and described the procedure
He scored out several paragraphs in these entries, they are almost impossible to read but seem to relate to encounters with a woman. He later remarked that he spent his time 'kissing Mrs C's sister. She would have granted me anything given proper opportunity'
He treated a woman who cut her leg to the bone with a rusty hook
A child died at Migvie and he gave news of it's family
He saw the husband and child of the woman who hung herself
He saw a woman who had dimness of sight
He described a wedding
He treated two cases of women with hysteria
Meldrum the apothecary is dead of a consumption
He gave bark to a woman with 'violent flooding' after an abortion
He treated a 16 year old who is vomiting blood
He treated a boy with a foul stomach
He saw a girl who'd had a still birth and was suffering from puerperal fever
He complained he has no business and stated that the county view is that he is too dear and too much by himself
He read 'Dangerous Connections' (London, 1784) and remarks 'It is a very dangerous book to be read by females of any description'. (This is an English translation of 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' by Choderlos de Laclos)
He was called by Charles Gordon to examine someone he wishes to enlist as a soldier in place of his son
He read Caroline on Diversities of Fortune (3 volumes, 1787)
He treated a boy with a hurt knee
He visited Pannanich Wells and described the health of visitors there to take the water including Lord Arbuthnott and family
He treated a man who fell from horseback
He treated a girl aged 21 with hysteric fits
He made notes regarding the translation of scrophulous matter to the brain
He treated a boy with scrophulous [rash] on his arms
He saw a girl with madness
He treated a boy with a cut head
He read 'Evelina, a young lady's entrance into the world' (2 volumes, London 1784)
He treated an old man with stony gravel
He saw a young lad with the falling sickness
He treated 'Finzean' for toothache
Pencil sketch of the North East View of the Rocks at Dover
He heard of Dr Armourer's death in Grenada and remarks that 'this is one of my propects blasted'
Miss Fraser of Brownhill is 'struck with me'. He describes her as 'amiable Rebecca'
'Mr Cheve's bride is dead and being buried on what should have been her bridal day'
The girl at Merryhill was delivered of a girl child (this is the girl who had had no menses for 6 months and who he believed was pregnant in May 1792)
He treated a girl with hysteria
He treated a girl aged 23 with a putrid fever, it was fatal because of 'loss of time' (ie he was too late called). Also treated her sister for the same fever
He read Dr Smith on 'Variety of Complexion and figure in the Human Species' (Edinburgh 1788)
He saw a man with anasarcous swellings but he died
He treated a woman with lowness of spirits and headache
He treated a girl with a fever
He treated a 'beautiful young boy' with fever
He read Governor Phillips's 'Voyage to Botany Bay' (1789) and 'The Shipwreck or Paul and Mary, an Indian Tale' (1789)
He treated a man with swelled throat and lock'd jaw
He wrote out a letter to Mr Lovelock in the West Indies accepting the position he offered and also wrote to Dr Clark in Dominica but did not send either letter
He saw a woman with consumption
He made comments on groundless fears |
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