Corpus overview
The corpus at a glance
A descriptive portrait of the 5,600 transcribed letters in Cullen's consultation archive. Every figure below will, in the full prototype, be clickable into a subcorpus — making this page the main entry point into the analytical tools, not a separate dashboard.
Headline figures
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When the letters were written
The correspondence spans 1755 to 1790, peaking in the 1770s and early 1780s as Cullen's consulting practice was at its height.
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Who was writing
The corpus is split into voices by author role. Cullen's own letters constitute just over half; the remainder are letters he received — from attending physicians, patients, and their families. How are these classified?
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What Cullen was consulted about
The most frequently tagged medical concepts across the corpus, drawn from the Glasgow editors' systematic annotation.
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The correspondents
The most frequent authors and the patients most often discussed.
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Where the letters came from
Places associated with the correspondence, drawn from the Glasgow editors' place annotations — excluding Edinburgh (5,468 letters).
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Gender in the corpus
Author and patient gender distributions, drawn from the persons metadata.
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