| Description | Journal of Jonathan Troup: July 1789
Mr Rennie's child died of diarrhoea. He treated another child and a sailor for the same condition
He described the weather
He was still suffering from gonorrhoea and described being tempted to cut his buboe. Later in the month, he mentioned that he lanced his buboe for the second time (he doesn't describe the first time) but that this was unsuccessful. He then tried topical bleeding
He extracted teeth from some patients
He treated several children for chincough
At Bath estate, he treated several negroes who were sick with fevers and diarrhoea.
He visited a black woman who was almost ready to be delivered of child and who had had a fit. He treated her but was called back to see her in the middle of the night as she was suffering several fits. Following a consultation with Dr Fillan and Dr Armourer, he decided to bleed her. This treatment combined with the debilitating effects of the violent fits produced a remission or collapse which was looked upon as favourable but she had another fit and died. Dr Armurer proposed saving child by caesarian section but [her owner] declined it
He told of a negro drowned in a swollen river and of 2 sailors found dead in marketplace. He remarked that too many were allowed to leave vessels and do nothing leaving them destitute and starving
He received £33 and 3 shillings from Thomas Rainy to pay to Captain Francis for passage
He saw a negro at Mr Jardin's estate for ulceration near frenum penis and buboes
He treated Mrs Jardin, who is creole, for ringworm in arm and leg
He bought parasol and 4 violin strings
He treated Ned, a sailor previously on the Duchess of Portland, for fever
He committed mistake of playing violin on Sunday, hopes God will forgive him
He treated 4 women for diarrhoea
He visited Wood Bridge estate and treated patients there
At Bath Estate, he treated a negro boy (Frank) who was a skeleton with diarrhoea, another boy for a tumour and a woman (Prudence) with diarrhoea
He was called to a very old woman at Wood Bridge. Very little specae and mal d'estomac with cold sweats. She was much improved the following day
He visited Mr Glennie's estate and treated a child with dysentery
Mr Cobham's Prudence was no better
He transcribed a letter (in French) concerning a vomit he had prescribed
He visited Mr Jardin's estate and stayed there overnight
He went to the estate next to Mr Jardin's and saw Mr Gammet who had a negro woman who delivered 4 healthy children in February. He gave a great deal of detail regarding this case. She was treated by a mulatto accoucheur, Joseph
He told of a native belief that Fridays are good if you have had a bad week and vice versa. Vessels were not allowed to sail on a Friday.
He visited Joseph, the French midwife who treated the woman with quadruplets and gave detail regarding his background. Joseph promised to call him on extraordinary occasions
He transcribed a letter (in French) requesting medicine
He remarked that diarrhoea is prevalent
He treated a black girl with a dislocated humerus from a fall
He remarked that Dr Armourer's assistant had been bad with dysentery and fever for two months
He treated a negro boy belonging to Mr Fraser who had cut a jigger from his little toe which was then inflamed and infected. This inflammation increased and eventually fungus grew on the mortified part of his foot. By the end of the month, the mortified part separated from the rest of the foot
He made notes on what medicines are useful for which conditions
He transcribed a letter (in French) requesting medicine
He treated two cases of prolapsed uterus
He treated a Negro who had cut the sole of his foot on glass
He treated a negro man with a scrotal hernia but a few days later the hernia had not reduced. He began to believe that the hernia at the Bath estate was some affection of the spermatic cord. It disappeared at the end of July
He told of an operation which Dr Spencer had performed on a hen. He described it as 'foolishness'
He bled a sailor who had angina pectoris with vomit
He remarked that there has been a thorough change in government
He attended a woman in labour at Woodbridge estate. The child was stillborn
He treated man with pain in tarsal bones with swelling and the same at the knee, elbow and clavicle
He borrowed the first volume of the Rollin's Bell lectures from Mr Lowndes
He made notes from the Marquis de S/Langle's 'Journey through Spain'
He treated one of Mr Considine's negroes for a cut
He borrowed Chesterfield's Letters volume 3 from Mr Fraser
He saw the 7 year old child of Mrs Warner who had had a discharge of pus and bloody scales from his nose since he had small pox. Troup suspected gonorrhea of the nose.
He treated two cases of foot cut in sole
He visited the prison to dress the face of a sailor who had been wounded by a companion with a rusty bottle and he also saw a sailor with guinea worm. He gave detail on the guinea worm case
He treated a negro girl who got a jigger in her the leg. Her leg had mortified
He treated 'A new negro ate the earth like bread… which brought on diarrhoea. If he dies, Mr Kemp is to put his head on a pole as an example'
He treated one of Mr Considine's negro women who was suffering from swelling of legs and violent pain following a difficult labour. He described his plan remarking that Dr Fillan and Mr Carson greatly disapproved
He described a superstition for preventing whooping cough
He was called to Belle Visii to see Dr Mudie, the manager, who had an inflamed eye
He described mountains and weather and gave a sketch
He described his own hands as being covered with vast numbers of small red pimples and blamed the sun and heat. He used lime juice on his hand to no effect and it worsened, with pain up his arm
He read James Keill M.D. on 'Animal Oeconomy' and made notes
He told of a clerk who died of bruises received from a mullato man
He discussed a concept from Dr Keill's book
He treated Mr Kemp who was suffering from a cold fever with pain in his loins |