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Miss Renton

Yours of the 19th. came here yesterday but
when I was necessarily in the Country.

I am heartily concerned to find Miss Rentons
ailments continue still to so great a degree. Your bleedings
have certainly been very well judged and have had good
effects and I am clear that there still may be occasion
for repeating it but I must leave the time and
quantity to your discretion. I am glad to find you
have got the blister applied and hope it shall be
with good effects. I think the Regimen advised
must be continued and I am glad to find the Asses
Milk begun and I beg She may take it to the
quantity that her stomach can easily digest. I
am extremely concerned to find the state of the weather
so unfavourable to Miss Renton but I beg
you will miss no opportunity of tolerable weather

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to set her abroad in a Carriage from which I appre¬
hend no increase of a spitting of blood unless the Carriage
is very ill hung or the roads that She travels very
rough. I have had instances of Persons Spitting no
blood when they travelled in a Carriage and only
when they sat still. With respect to the ceasing
of the Menses I consider it as a symptom and not
as a cause but I should be glad to relieve it. I
don't however know of any Salts that are likely
to be of service but I have given you on other page
a Prescription which has been recommended in
such cases ↑of Phthisis↑ but which I hardly employ least
except for an Amenorrhœa attending it. With
best Compliments to Mr. Renton and family and most
earnest wishes for Miss Rentons better health I am
as always

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For Miss Renton