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For Mr Mill.

It is very difficult to get the better of of Mr Ms. ailments during the winter season
but I hope it is possible to keep them within bounds so as to carry him through the
winter & to give us an opportunity of doing more for him on the return of summer.

For this purpose the following &cc.

1. Diet must be of milk, grain & fruit. Let him take every morning as much
ass's milk as his stomach can easily digest & to help that he may put 2 or 3
teaspoons. of rum in the milk. At his meals he may take some kind of grain
as bread rice flour of rice barley sago or oatmeal & these variously prepared
with or with out milk & with or with out fruit which may be apples pears Raisins
Currants, proons, preserved fruits, & currant jelly & a little skill will direct
him to vary all these things so as not let him be tired of his diet. He
must take no animal food whether flesh fist or eggs, only he may have
now & then some beef tea or weak chicken broth either to be taken with
bread or with barley or with rice separately boiled & put into them He may sometimes
take a little boiled turnip but roots or greens are to be used very sparingly,
a little dry mealy potatoe is the safest he can take. He may sometimes
sweeten his food with sugar or with honey if this last agree with his stomach

2. for drink, must take no fermented or spirituous liquor but must keep
to water, water gruel barley water & weak bohea tea.

3. In mild & fair weather he may better from going a little on horseback
in the forenoon butt in either frost or wet weather he will do better to keep
at home as there is nothing of more consequence to him than guarding against cold &
for this purpose should use every other precaution. I suppose he has or at
least should have flannel every where next his skin & should be otherwise
warly ¹ cloathed. Should particularly take care to keep his feet & legs
always warm & dry.

4. These / will I hope do a great deal to keep his ailments moderate & there is
but one medicine which may contribute to the same effect that I would advise
him. It is a decoction ordered in the paper enclosed. He is to take by twothree
or four tablespoonfulls at a time & this two three or four times a day as his
stomach bears it. It should not move his belly & if it do more than keep him

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regular he must take it in less quantity or let it alone till he advise me & if
at any time any new circumstance cast up in his complaints if he will inform
me of it I shall be ready to advise him farther.

For Mr Mill