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From my long silence you will no doubt have
concluded that I had got the better of my complaints, & when
I tell you that I have lately taken unto myself a wife, you
will readily beleive that I thought my self considerably better
the complaints in my Stomach have some of them left me
altogether & those that remain are greatly lessned. I am
now seldom or ever troubled with the heart burn or the
sick fits I once complained of my remaining complaints
seem to be chiefly confined to a weakness of my bowels
as I am frequently attacked with gripings, accompanied with
Loose Billious Stools, flattulency & frequently an uneasy
pain along my right side & small of my back, but as
it never continues many days at a time & often sifts
its residence I conclude it to be owing to some wind
in the passages that have this direction that way
the bleeding at the Anus returns now but seldom
& when it does can generally account for the cause
of it, Vizt. riding on horseback, cold or indulging too
freely in the use of Strong drink, I have not yet
made any alteration in the regimen you prescribed
nor indeed have any inclination to do so, as I find
it agrees with my Stomach, my appetite is upon
the whole very good, & I ↑am↑ apt at Dinner to indulge
it in the too free use of Animal food. I sleep very
well rise early & take a good deal of exercise on
foot in the open Air. I have not yet begun to
bath but shall next week, my hair is now grown
out, I flatter myself I may now use the bath
without being under the necessity of cutting ↑it↑ of again

My wife now 20 years of age of a thin make
has since ever the menstrual discharge made its appear¬
ance, had a rather too copious flow of them altho
attended with neither pain or sickness, untill about
the time of our marriage ↑in Decr. last↑ when a discharge of another
kind made its appearance & which I think is called
the Fluor Albuos or Whites, which has continued ever since
in a greater or less degree, accompained with frequent
pains in the head, small of the back & right side all
of which are at times very violent Her menses continue
in the usual quantity, untill the two last-times when
it was considerably lessened in quantity & in duration
& since which the other discharge is greatly increased
accompained with above symptoms & cold shivering over
her whole body, her appetite was never good, but now
I think it worse than usual, I have repeatedly asked
her if she could in any ↑way↑ account for the cause of this
disagreeable complaint, she says she cannot without it
was occasioned by some uneasiness of mind preceeding
our marriage & at a time when she had her menses, as
she tells me that, it occasioned a stoppage of them for a
a day or two & then they returned with in a greater degree
than usual, & after this she first made a discovery of
the other complaint, she tells me that frequently for
a day or two preceeding the appearance of the