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I Embrace this opportunity of an Acquantance going
to your Place to inform you of the State of my health, I had the
pleasure of waiting upon you in the beggining of Summer
1773 for your advice concerning a complaint in the lower Part
of my Belly which you told me was in Consequence of ↑a↑ tough¬
ness on the neck of my Bladder was also favoured since that
time, wt. your kind letter & a presc↑r↑iption for a nervous Complaint
for which I own my self greatly obliged to you thus far for
Remembrance --

Some little time after I got a little better of that nervous Dis¬
order I was seized with the Romatic Pains to a dreadful Excess
about the beggining of last Spring the Complaint in my Bla¬
dder considerably abated but was seized with a distressing
acute pain in my Testicles altho no appearance ↑of↑ any swelling
more than ordinary in these parts. The pains of my body Conti¬
nuing was advisd to bath in Salt Water from which I came
home about [3?] weeks ago but since I came home have been
a great deal worse not only with the Romatic Pains
but more especialy wt. my Bladder & Testicles, whither
these pains in my Testicles be in Consequence of the Pain in
my Bladder or are the Effects of the Romatic I cannot say,
I have no difficulty in making water but often a sharpness
in it. A remarkable scalding Heat in the Private Parts attended
wt. sometimes a most uncommon sweating in these Parts an
Erection of the Penis I think encreases the uneasiness in the

To
Doctor William Cullen
Physician
Edinburgh