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For Mr Alexr. Gordon.

I offer but one medicine. A Solution added below.
It is to be taken in about 40 drops for a dose but in a broth
& the precise dose to be determined by the quality of the
broth. Care is to be therefore taken that the broth be always
made uniformly the same and the following receipt may
be an example of it. Take four ounces of lean beef; chop
it small & put it into three mutchkins of Spring water.
Set the whole over a fire & let it boil slowly till two mutch¬
kins are boiled away & then strain the broth from the beef
thro a linnen cloth In making this broth, if it be a¬

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greable to Mr Gordon a few blades of mace or a
few grains of Jamaica pepper may be put into it a
little before it is to be taken from the fire. In making
this broth it will be proper, it will be proper boil it
rather too much than too little, but if therefore upon
occasion there is less than a mutchkin of the Strained broth
let as much warm water be added to it as will make it
exactly a muchkin -- If the weights & measure of the
above receipt be exactly observed, the broth will at all
times be exactly and uniformly the same & may therefore
be employed for determining the dose of the Solution.
One half of the broth is to be employed for one Dose & as much
of the Solution is to be put into it as the broth will exactly
cover the taste of, for example if forty Drops be put into
half a muchkin of water the broth without discovering its
taste in it, you are then to add more of the Solution drop by
drop, till you can discover the taste of it in the broth, which
perhaps maybe when fifty drops or more are added, but what¬
ever in the quantity of the Solution which discovers itself in the broth
The ordinary dose is to be five Drops less than that
In this manner a Dose is to be taken every day about an hour
before Dinner - It will be enough to have the broth made
for it every second day only but what is set by for the 2d day
should be cooled very suddenly & set by covered in a very cool
place -- With the use of this Solution Mr Gordons diet

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should be as follows - At Breakfast Any kind of
Tea & Bread & Butter, but no Jelly &c or other Sweet
meat. - At Dinner, his broth will serve for part.
after that some light meat. - or fish sparingly, but no
fat heavy or Salted meats. - Spiceries very sparingly
Mustard is the safest. - Pickles very bad for him.
Vinegar very sparingly & no Lemon Juice - Roots green
& in general garden things very sparingly & only a little
of them when young & tender -- Any thing of grain
he may take freely. & therefore any kind of pudding or pancake
At supper Mr Gordon may take an Egg or any thing of
grain by themselves & with milk if he digest it easily -
but no Animal food except the Egg.

Ordinary drink plain water. - No malt liquors
& no wine either would be better. The only safe wines
are the Strongest as Madeira or red port well diluted
with water - After dinner & Supper a few glasses of
Spirits & water with a little Sugar & no Lemon

The gentlest Exercise only allowable & only this
when his business requires it. -

Nothing so hurtfull as Costiveness & if not [nature?] does
not do this he must try the two [solutions?] below, the oil if
it answers to be prepared to the Electuary but if it does
not he must have recourse to the Electuary

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