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I give too often troubling you, three or four weeks
ago I thought ↑got↑ cold in my feet by walking. I got a cold a cough
leasted eghet or ten days, since that I got cold in my back which
brought pains in my syde and breast and back [stanging?] pains
for the pain in my breast I just now ↑have I↑ seldom want it I always
about half an hour, after I awake, take your advice in geting
up early, I had no pain in my syde for a good time before I
got this cold; you see I am very particular with you.

I have anouther complaint, etheir had it not, or did not atend to
it the last time I wrot you, which is alwise an aseed taste in
↑my↑ mouth, swaleing any thing soon after turns ased in my stomach
not a disagreable taste which is so far lukie, but the taste of
an aple. I am [nauterile?] a good sleeper when wel, but even now
otherwise I sleep always in the begining of the night, very
wel refresh'd with it this morning til three sometimes
half an hour or hour; in the afternoon to be plain with you
I knew no Phisician I cou'd be at [thes?] give so much trouble too
Hendrie Lindesay wil wait on you some of this day[;?]
Mr Bethune gives his compts to you. His health as [usual?],

To
Doctor Cullen
at his house in
the Mint Close Edin.r

Alice Bethune
Janry 10 (↑13.↑) 1775
V. II. p. 62.