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I intended this
Day to have wrote you more fully at any
Rate than what I did my last, concerning
your Health & the Methods you should
take for thorough Recovery of it again. -
& being conscious that your Constitution
will require both a great deal of attention
& the best Advice in order to its thorough Re¬
establishment, I began to wish that you
had also taken some other person's Advice
of real Skill in the profession, & therefore since
you are so farr in your way to Edinburgh
I think you should lose no Time but apply
to Doctor Cullen there immediately & to
get his prescriptions as to Medicine & what
I think is of more Consequence his orders

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for a long & continued Regimen or Me¬
thod of Managing yourself as to Diet &
Exercise, enquire whether a Sea Voyage
may be necessary. --- You will do right
to give a very distinct Narration of your
Complaints for Years back to the Doctor
but think there will be no Occasion to give it
to him in Writing as he will be very [close?]
in his questions by word of Mouth: -
I put you last year on a Course of a Decoc¬
tion of the woods combined with an Anti¬
monial & gave frequent laxatives at that
time as [also?] recommended the use of
them after for a long time. --- As to the Medi¬
cines &.c. that you used in your last Illness
your own Memory with the help of my last
Letter will make that out well enough. --

I agree with you that your Staying at Moffat

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is in your present State of very little
Consequence. -- & must in the mean Time
recommend a great degree of Abstemi¬
ousness, living more strict than a Bramin ¹
i.e. without even the use of Butter, Cheese,
or Eggs. --- as it may be proper to take
some body with you a Chaise will on the
whole be a more convenient & safer Consequence.
If you were sure of good weather, & to ride
only one Stage a Day, you might make it out
but then it might be proper to have somebody
with you. --- As to your drawing up
Memoirs of your Health [r.e.?] It might be
very proper to fix it better on your Mind
in order to give a more distinct account to the
Doctor of it after. -- When you get into Edinburgh
you had better write him a Card immediately
telling him that you want to consult him about
your Case which is a Spitting of Blood & ask when
it will be convenient for you to wait on him or if he
would rather chose to call {illeg} your quarters. - Yours &c.

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To
Mr: William Mc:dowall
at present in
Moffat.