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I was favor'd with your Obliging Letter
of 15th. Jany. last; since which time My Rheumatic
Decease has continued to give me much pain; It is a dreadful
Decease as ever mortal was seased with; And I Pray God
my time of it were once over. All the parts which were
affected have within these four or five days become
swelled Considerably but without yet lessning the
Pain which I feel upon my Thigh being any way
laid in an improper poister, for when I get it laid
easy above the other Thigh I will sometimes lye
tolerably free from pain for whiles This leads me
to inform yow, that I am totally confined to lye on
the Left side which I have done constantly since the
month of December On this Account I was sometime
ago Obliged to suffer the Issue on my left side to haill
up, but without any bad tendency, my Cough being
entirely gone, And no other pain in my side but that
arising from lying constantly upon it; The Stinging
is totally gone, but I have still a pain in my hip
joint and in some leaders or tendons which go down
from it along the under part of my hip and Thigh
towards the Hogh which renders it very uneasy for
me to sit upon a chair even with Pillows below
me as it sometimes seases me with a violent Stound
or Sting while Sitting upon it. The affected Thigh is
Prodigeously weak their being also a considerable
pain in my knee And when I am lifted out of my

I should have told yow that I continued
to use the Aperient mixture Prescribed in your
last untill about a week ago it had the affects yow
mentioned made me Perspire & keeps my Belly
regular but as I found the Perspiration was
very great & had weakned me with the loss of fflesh
without ever having made the sore Thigh Perspire
any I gave it up untill I shall hear farther from
yow. I have

I have hitherto taken Oatmeal Pottage
and milk to breakfast, some broth & bread or rice
Pudden and a few Stewed Apples to dinner, a peice of
Oatmeal Kake & milk at Tea time & to supper,
I give the oat bread part of the merit of carrying of my
Cough as their did not arrise so much flume from
it as from Loaf bread; from my weakness and
Lying constantly in Bed my Stomach has rather
flagged a little within these few days.

I most next inform yow for nothing
most remain concealed that my good old mother
having called to see me within these few days and
finding me so much {illeg} (↑Emaciated↑) Complained that

I very seldom anoint my thigh now with the
Anodyne Oil the Stinging being gone off.

Pray now what shall I do with respect to
Regimen as well as application to the Rheumatic
parts I am afraid I shall have to linger in Bed at least
another month yet I wish I were once able to come
to Edinr. to rewaird yow for all your trouble for I
dont consider the trifle yow had from me at Consul¬
tation as entitling me to all this Correspondance on
another Decease.

Doctor William Cullen
Professor of Medicine
Edinburgh