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I Receved yours upon the 30th, I would have wrote you
more fully last time, but Dr Campbell being here that morning
hurried me, ↑& as he was going immediatly to Ayr that it might Catch the post,↑ upon the Teusday morning to Stop the Vomiting
we boiled in a botle of port mace Cinnamon nutmeg &
Cloves, and had pieces of soft Flannell [dangled?] in it, &
aplyed them, one after another upon the region of
his Stomack, & likewise gave him pepper mint water
with sugar, & sometimes warm Madeira with a little ---
nutmeg, vomited none that day, aplyed a fresh Blister
to his head at bedtime, had an easy night, there was
a fine evacuation from the Blister, his Pains of his
head was greatly relieved, & better all day, went to
the other room upon Thursday, Vomited in the afternoon
washed his Stomack with Chamomile tea & warm water
my reason for that was, as he was to get anderson pills
at night, I thought it would be better to Clean his
Stomack, when he threw up a great deal of [roppy?]
Huff as for merly , geive him four Anderson pills at bedtime
a mercurial pill in the morning with five grains, about
twelve a Clock forenoon got an ounce of Salts dissolved, keept
it near two hours, threw up a litle, this was upon Friday

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gave him another ounce of the Glauber which he
did not throw up, in the evening I gave him an
injection, which had a noble effect, passed a great
quantity of feculent matter well [mixed?], I gave him
another the same evening, when he Still passed a great
deal of excrement, had not a good night, upon the
Saturday morning, had got some unrefreshing sleep,
awaked with Confused painfull dreams, & a severe
headack, he said it was quite different from his usuall
Spasmodick attacks, I then thought it might arise from
the quantity of internall medicine he had taken the day
before, and was going to give him another injection,
I found him rather too warm, & was waiting, untill he
turned Cooler, but in the interim, he fell into a most
profound quiet Sleep, & did not awake untill four a
Clock in the afternoon, he fell asleep about Eleven in
the forenoon, he seemed to be more refreshed with it, than
any sleep he had got since he was ill, a lilte after that
I gave him an injection when he passed a great deal
feculent matter, & that same night I gave him another
when he passed a good deal of small hard fæces like
sheeps purls, which was always like what he passed for
the most part before with the injections, unless it was one
Sundays night, which I wrote you of formerly when he
passed a good deal of soft fæces

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upon sunday morning had a stool naturally, his servant
told me it was as good as any of the rest, sunday he rose and
went in to the other room, had but a restless night, monday was
uneasy with his head, got his legs into the knees in water
agreably warm, for some litle time, & when he went to his
bed aplyed four leeches upon the arms, reas reason for
that was, as he used to be troubled with the bleeding piles
and they were swelled externally, I never saw any thing
do so well, they bled a great deal, I gave him three andersons
pills also at Eleven a Clock at night, & a mercurial pill
not four grains in it, he threw up a mouthfull or two this
forenoon, I gave him ↑an↑ injection this night, when he passed a very
good stool, Dr Gillespie showed me your letter, I made him
up a mixture of pepper mint water Spirit of Lavender some
Salt of Wormwood five or six drops oyl of [Cinnamon?] [melled?]
not sugar, his Urine has sometimes a sedement and often
a Cloud in it a very good Colour, you are Certainly right
about gouty pains in his Stomack, for I see when his Stomack
is most ailing his head is better & surely warming things are
best, he is extremely weak, and we must not pull down
his strenth, we got him this day down to the dining room,
where he now stays, and we have a Sedan chair & we will
Carry him up & down the room to Morrow, the when the
weather will permit Carry him out, he got sleep last night, does
not Complain of his head this day, as to the [bump?] in his fore¬
head its now an open ulcer & tolerable good matter in it in
short it looks well and I think may be Cured with out
Cutting

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I aplyed to it before dry Charpee, with a Cloath
dipped in the Spirit minderer; I assure you it was
quite neutralised, for I made it my self always, as
My Lord has medicines that he brought from London
of the best kind, I now dress it with the Unguentum Saturnin
this spread upon the Charpee & a Cloath above it wet
with Rose water a litle of the Spirit Minderer; & some
grains of the Saccharum Saturni, his pulse Continues
remarkably regular, quite free of fever, I have tryed
it of late with my own, and it seems always to be much
about the same frequencey, No doubt Dr Gillespie and
I are both anxious about my Lords welfare, but if
you was here & saw his weakness, you would be
afraid to give him much internall medicine, for
now as his intestines seems to be quite Clear, I
hope the Injections may answer for all, I see no
room for giving the bark yet, but if it please God that
his Lordship reover which I have great hopes he will
you must be thinking upon some warm strenthning
medicine, for his Stomack, & likewise to destroy that
glutinous phlegm, & write me your sentiments about that
bump, & what might be further aplyed