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For Mrs. Innes

I am glad to observe that Mrs. Innes in her general
state of health, is much better then before, and tho' the
foundation of her Complaint may seem still to remain
I am perswaded they are in a much better and safer way.
For this and other reasons I am of opinion that she
should for sometime omit the use of the pills, she has
hitherto so frequently employed. I hope in undertaking
a journey she is taking a measure that will be of
great service both to herself and Mr. Innes - It is
very proper for Mrs. Innes that this journey shou'd
be conducted so as, neither to heat nor fatigue her

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and therefore, her motions shou'd be gentle, her daily jour¬
neys moderate, and even with proper rest between stages. It
would be very proper for Mrs Innes and not improper for
her, to take the whole of the days journey before taking
dinner, which might be done ny making this later than
usual, and managing so that one meal serve both for
dinner and supper --- I see no occasion for any particular
choice of diet for Mrs. Innes, only it is proper that in
general it should be light and cool, and for the rest she may
be guided by her own experience - In the Course of this
Journey it will be very proper for her to go to Bath and
try a little the effects of bathing there, but it will be very
proper to try it be degrees, and before she goes into the
baths of the ordinary heat, that she should take it once or
twice of a tempered kind, and even when she does go into
the ordinary bath in the first trial, she should remain
in the bath but for a short time - In the trial of the
bath she is to judge of its effects in this way. If it relieves
the pains that trouble her right side and give her cooler
nights, it promises to do her service, and she shoud
continue the use of it for some weeks. But, on the con¬
trary, if after several trials her pains are not relieved,
and are rather increased with more feverish nights, no
benefit is to be expected and rather some harm is to be feared,
while Mrs. Innes is at Bath she may drink a little of
the bath water, but she must take a little only, for I ex¬
pect little benefit from it, and if {illeg} it might do
much harm ---------