[Diary entry: 14 June 1768]

14. Returnd home again, & found Mr. B. Fairfax here. Sent for Doctr. Rumney to Patcy Custis who was seized with fitts. Mr. M. Campbell lodgd here.

Rumney treated this outbreak of epileptic convulsions by bleeding Patsy and prescribing some of the same medicines that he had given her earlier: valerian, “nervous drops,” and ingredients for another medicinal brew (receipt from William Rumney, 18 Feb. 1769, ViHi: Custis Papers).

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Title: [Diary entry: 14 June 1768]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 14 June 1768

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 14 June 1768],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0003-0016-0014. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 2, 14 January 1766 – 31 December 1770, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976, p. 68.]