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I called at your house
at when passing thro' Edinburgh on my way
here about a month since but was informed
you were out of town - the purpose of this
letter is to consult you about the son of
a particular Friend of Mine in London
a Mr Stevenson Brother to Dr Stevenson
of this place; the young man is I believe
about 14 was at an academy at Chiswick
for his education & I understand that he
was healthy tho' of a delicate appearance
his make being slim his complexion

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most uncommonly fair with a very remark¬
able red upon his cheecks so that one
might have imagined him painted - his
Father in a letter to me of the 10th of this (↑last↑)
month mentions the having brought him
to town on account of a fever but which he
says had abated - in a letter of the 21st he
says "My poor boy has coughed up, when
the cough was violent three or four chalk like
concretions about the size of a grain of wheat
but irregular in form; they give me uneasey ap¬
prehensions from the thought of his habit being
inclined to form them in his lungs & to cause
inflammations there - if you can get the opinion
of Dr Cullen upon that head as you pass thro' Edinburgh
on your way back here it will much oblige
Me"

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this days post brings Me a letter from him of
the 27th full of alarm & I find that Dr Garthshore
& Mr Hunter who attend his son give him little
comfort. he much regrets the absence of Dr. J. Prin¬
gle who is at Bath & seems doubly anxious
for your views - the 21st at midnight he
was seized with a violent shivering, his {illeg}
exceedingly quick his skin turning hot
& dry, his rest disturbed with a
short tickling cough with the
pain moved from his side to the sternum
& more violent than when in his side. [during?] the [break?]
the pain in his breast which he thinks the cause
of his cough becoming more violent has been his
chief complaint & has confined him to bed without
appetite from a Nausea which precedes every fit of
coughing - these two last Nights there has been a [sharp?]
appearance of irruption on his skin - he has had the
small pox & measles - he has a very fetid breath &
night sweats these two last nights" let me
request your immediately writing to Mr Ste¬

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venson what may occur to you addressed to
Roger Stevenson Esqr. at Mr Durhams Bootsel¬
ler Charing Cross London -

Dr Cullen
Edinburgh

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Mr Bowman
Q
Mr Stevenson's Son
December 1779
X. p.130