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You have great reason to be impatient {illeg}
thought of it but I always find that sufficient to the dy{illeg}
tion thereof & your business could not possibly have dispatched {illeg}
wished but at some leisure. I write without that now as I am & {illeg}
therefore cannot say all that I would I meant to say but hope I sh[ould?]
do it tomorrow & to night I shall give you only an answer to y[our?]
queries. N. 1. To the first I say that the little hardness I felt in {illeg}
Seated in the teguments of the belly & not in any bowel [cont?]
& this I am well persuaded of & may therefore served for an answer
to your 2 & 3d queries. Nr. 2. will regard to the 4th query I do not
doubt but that those may be some foulness of (↑acrimony in↑) your blood & all is
comprehended under the term Scorbutic but they are of various
kinds and it is extremely difficult to ascertain their particular nature.
With regard to them we are obliged to proceed upon some
general plan. I think you may (↑must↑) have more regard to the
sensibility of your nerves which you so sensibly point out &
explain than to any acrimony in your blood. You must
therefore be cautious in any trials in diet I am of opinion
that you will be the better of as much milk & vegetables
as your former habits, the necessity of wine & the sensibility
of your Stomach will allow for vegetables are liable to be
flatulent & flatulency you will not {illeg} bear. This {illeg} of
correcting the acrimony of your blod by diet it would be bet[ter?]
to throw it out by a medicine which would support your pov{illeg}
ration very fully & such a medicine I offer to you below.

[With reg?]ard to yr 5th query I am clear that ye cold
{illeg}t ys climate is very unfit for such ↑a↑ valetudinarian [of?]
{illeg} I believe you will be better to take to a warmer
{illeg} especially for the winter. New York is also
{illeg} cold for the winter & Bermudas would be too warm for
{illeg} Summers but if you can shift these places with the Seasons
{illeg}h may do very well.. I suppose therfor other purposes
{illeg} have some attractiveness to one or other of these places
{illeg} considerable advantage might accrue from the voyage
{illeg} either of them but [heating?] comes such considerations
I would say that the South of Spain is a fine winter
climate & the North East of France is a fine one for the
Summer.

With regard to your 6th Q. I have nothing to supply
to a person who has already had experience of sea voyages
The principal {illeg} (↑att↑)ention necessary is to avoid the
common Sea Diet & the great costiveness which sailing
commonly produces.

If you do go to Bermudas I have nothing to say but
{illeg} repeat that is probable will be too warm for you
for summers & it is very doubtfull how you will
bear the Diet of fruit & vegetables which such a warm
season almost necessarily requires. I can say no more to it
but &cc -------

Mr Christie of
Montrose
✍Vol. Vth. p.38

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