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Bad digiestion
Short & languid [Hexpiry?]
Great pains in the Bowels and Back especially
about the >left pap, where I am the least warmly
and a Breath of Wind fans on me, wou'd a flan¬
ning shirt next my skin be of advantage. --
A most moderate costiveness attends me, I
use every method in my power to prevent it such
a Cold Bathing, Walking early in the morning
Drinking Beer, Whey, Butter milk, and different
kinds of fruit such as Apples Stew'd prunes, &c
all with very little effect. The bad effects I find
by Costiveness is in a little time a perfect want
of appetite a most grievous wind and Rum¬
bling in my Belly and Bowels and if not relie¬
ved by a Gentle purge terminates in a Cholic
some chance times am troubled with a headach
in the General am much affected with Cold and
my whole body in particular my hands and
feet are as cold as a dead man any Color often
Changes from a Reddy to a dismal pale yellow
am often times troubled with a >heartburn but
not of late so affected as formerly for then I
almost never wanted it. Sometimes I am
much troubled with the Water Brash And
at night I pass ✍Semen ✍

Water in the General is of an exceeding high
Color not much unlike Brandy at other
times excessively clean But when clean
or muddy mostly in very small quantities
am sometimes very much pained in the
Stomach but Camomile flowers & a about
twenty drops of the Elixir of Vitriol be a safe & Ef¬
ficatious medicine for the above Complaints

What sort of victualling is most proper to whether
Animal of Vegetal be good be most proper or [part?]
of both, what sort of liquor whether I should use
any Malt liquor or wine or no kind at all what
sort of vegetables is most proper is not spinage
a proper green for keeping the belly easy and not
windy, whether or not if be not proper to use no
milk till I be dry. Whether I should eat victuals
twice three or four times a day, which of [these Met
hods?] will facilitate digestion most Should I avoid
every kind of diet that has the smallest tendency
to fatness such as a little fat meat with [lean?]
or a little fresh Butter whether or not if sofiry
soft Boiled hens eggs be not a very proper diet.
I find a Clear dry Air agree with me but in
the time of very thick Cold [wile?] weather I am
[prodesgendy?] distress with bad digestion and a
Cruel weight as it were on my Neck and shoul¬
ders pressing me almost to the ground and {illeg}
despendency and lowness of Spirits, and often at
other times I find this lowness of Spirits attend me
and when I stand & find a sort of dizziness but
this is to no great degree [parden o ?] my head
and body has apropensity to fall backwards &
forwards considerably I notice this frequently
when I make water. Wou'd a sea voage to
N. America be of service to me woud the Climate
of New York or pensilvania be better than this
Country where tis said the Air is amazingly more
Clean wou'd the heat have be dangereus [tendency?]
or wou'd a [Country?] life at home be more Eligible
for one of my Complaints, what sort of purgative
will be most safe to keep my belly open and at
same time not to be flatulent if peruvian bark
and Steell be proper us'd and it I Cant say
with great effect it bound me much whether it
be proper to use the Cold Bath every day, whether
or not much Confining in my house and Reading or [sit?]
ing be not hurtful

am much affected with a sore mouth when my Belly is Costive, what is a proper remedy

Mr J. Love Manufacturer
in Paisley
VIII 16 IX. 16.