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For the Revd. Mr. Gordon

Having considered the information received {illeg}
Saturday and also that of this morning I am heartily
concerned to find Mr. Gordon still so much distressed
but we must still hope for relief and employ every
means for obtaining it. The case is urgent and even
some doubtful remedies must be employed but I am
at a loss to speak positively because my information
is by no means so full and exact as it should be.
To what purpose, tell me that my prescription of
bleeding and blistering was attended to without telling
me at the same time in what manner or
with what effect either of them have been employed.
I am indeed told in the last letter that the
bleeding had given a temporary relief but of very
short duration and that the Medical people
are backward to repeat it. I was backward to
advise it and was backward also ro repeat it but
positively

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positively I could not [state?] {illeg} either. Was this
made {illeg}? Was the relief obtained
of an hour or of a day? Was the blood sizy or not?
I would not wish the Medical people about Mr.
Gordon would think me a Conjurer and that I can
advise without knowing the precise circumstances
of the Case and unless I have more full and exact
information I can give no advice at all. In a {illeg}
letter I desired that the Opium might be in a full
dose but I am not told it does not give him sleep
without telling me in what dose it was employed
or how far it gave any relief to his breathing. I re¬
commended along with opiates the use of laxatives
but I am not told whether they were ever necessary
or employed. I consider the Case as very distressing
and I have been exceedingly anxious to relieve it if I
could but I never was worse served in point of informa¬
tion which renders me quite incapable of doing as
I wish. I perceive that the Æther is not of

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{illeg} and therefore {illeg}
laid aside. His relief {illeg} must depend upon bleeding
blistering and Opium {illeg} [played?]. His cough
and expectoration should do him service but if it re¬
quires a remedy it must be the measures I have
mentioned.