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Mrs Lochart's health and constitution seem to be at bottom very good
and to need very little physic; but the delicacy of her constitution re¬
quires some management and the accident which lately happened de¬
mands some precuations for the time to come and I think it necessa¬
ry to advise the following measures

1. All violent Exercise must be ↑carefully↑ avoided: Dancing might do much
harm, even much walking is very improper especially up and downhill,
but gentle walking if not too long at one time will be useful &
going on hoseback or in a Carriage if moderate & never long at one
time will be of service. Towards the end of a month Exercise of
all kinds should be avoided unless it is of the most gentle kind.
Whatever Exercise occasions fatigue in any degree & particularly
if it raises pains of the back it is too much.

2. Mrs Lockharts diet should be light & cooling. Every day at
Dinner she should take some light Broth made of any meat that
is not fat. She may after it take a bit of chicken, white fowl or other
young meat and sometimes a bit of tender mutton especially boi¬
led. She may also take a little white Fish as Haddock, Whiting, Flouder
but only boiled & served with a plain sauce. She is to abstain from Beef,
Pork, Bacon, all kinds of Water fowl Wild fowl and Pigeons. Even of the
meats she takes she should take sparingly & never made a full meal of
any but rather fill it up with pudding or Vegetables. Of the last she may
take her meat what her stomach easily digests & with the same condi¬
tion she may take what fruit raw boiled or baked she pleases.

At supper, Mrs Lockhart should take no meat of any kind but some sort
of milk meat that is Milk with fruit, bread, Rice, Sago, Vermicelli,

Tea & Coffee are both bad for Mrs Lockhart but she may take
the first of it always cool weak & taken cool & in this way she may
take it for breakfast with dry toast & butter but the last article mo¬
derately.

Heavy sauces must be avoided & so must all pickles & spi¬
ceries.

For ordinary drink Toast water or Water boiled and cooled
again is the most proper, but she may some times take a little well
brewed small beer & sometimes a little White wine may be put to
her water. All kinds of strong drink are improper and she should
never go farther than a glass of (↑r↑) two of Claret at Dinner &
hardly so much at Supper.

Let her continue to take the asses milk every morning
& to the qty of half a mutchkin if her stomach bears it. There
is nothing more Mrs Lockhart should be more attentive to than avoiding
cold. She must take care never to be much heated by warm chambers
or any Exercise, never to make any change to a thinner or lighter
dress & to be in general warmly cloathed. She must avoid all moisture
& when she contracts any degree of cold she should keep at home & keep to a
light diet till it is gone off again.

It is absolutely necessary for Mrs Lockhart ↑to keep her belly↑ regular and easy
& for that purpose I have sent an Electuary that I expect will not be
disagreable. She will please take a tea spoonful in the morning about
two hours after the Asses milk & an hour or half an hour before breakfast

I hope this dose will answer to give one motion & that is all that is
proper; but if she finds that it does either more or less the dose next
day is to be diminished or increased to two spoonfuls. In the present
state of her constitution I expect she may need a dose every day for
some days together but after she is once put into a proper train it will
by no means be necessary to take the medecine as often & [it?] will only

Besides the Electuary I have
sent another Medecine which I mean
as a strengthening tincture for the stomach
[&?] her whole bowels & hope it may al¬
so favour perspiration & soften her
skin she will please to take two table
spoonfulls every day about an hour before dinner. It is to be laid aside
when any thing happens at the end of the month.

Neither this medecine nor the Electuary require any confine¬
ment or change of Diet.