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Mr. D. Colquhon Concerning Mr. Campbell

I am sorry to find Mr. Campbells
ailment so very obstinate but unless you find more in
his throat than yet appears or that you find some other
distinct Venereal symptom I shall still think the ail¬
ment of the scrotum not of that kind. I think even the
effects of the poultice show this, and he must have recourse
to this when it is necessary. What would the constant
application of it every night for a week or two together do?
This might perhaps be too troublesome but it is possible that
a very soft plaister or cerate constantly applied might an¬
swer the purpose. I am indeed of opinion that it is very
↑much a↑ local affection and that internal medicines may do little
but I think the Antimonial promises to do as much as
any thing. For the manner of using if I give you a
formula on the other page but you must adjust the dose
by a few trials. He should take as much as will give
a little sickness but not so much as to occasion vomiting.

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You will find as in most persons I have found that at night
he will bear a dose the double of what he will bear in the
morning. I expect some benefit from this medicine
but I would ↑not↑ have him enter upon it till he returns from
Harrigate. I would not have sent him to that place on his
own account but as he is going there on another I would
have him to try that water cautiously. Let him take
just so much of it as will open his belly every day but
↑by↑ no means so much as to purge him. At the same time
let him heal the scrotum as well as he can by a night
or two of the poultice and when the skin is sound let him
bath the part with the Harrigate water pretty warm every
night and morning covering it in the day time with the
Ceratum album of the London Dispensatory. Wishing him
heartily relief, I am

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For Mr. Campbell