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My worthy Friend the Bishop of Dromore
did not stay long at Carlisle after I received your
letter, he and his family are gone to reside in
his Diocese in Ireland, otherwise I should have wrote
to you again. His Lordship was exceedingly pleased
with your sentiments and followed your advice
in almost every thing except that of diminishing
his hours of study, and while he remained here
he was sensibly better, and I lately recd. a letter
from him in which he mentions that the sensation
of oppression neither returns so frequently, nor to
so violent a degree.

In your third vol. of First Lines, on the Diabetes
there is a passage from which I apprehend a treatise

on that Disease was preparing for publication. ¹
Pray is it come out or may we expect it soon.
I have at present under my care a ↑poor↑ female
patient who has long laboured under it. I have
frequently measured her urine since I saw
her she has made sixteen pints in twenty four
hours. Her urine is of a light greenish colour &
sweet to the taste which I imagine is always the case
in the idiopathic Diabetes. I evaporated five pounds
of it and obtained seven ounces of a sweetish matter
of the consistence of Taffy. The disorder is accompanied
with a most obstinate costiveness. To keep her body
open she takes Aloetics and Castor oil and agreeable
to the advice of most Physicians she takes an astringent
Electy. of Bark alum &c. and I think has recd. con¬
siderable advantage, the quantity of her urine is
much diminished and she has now a free perspiration
and she has gained some strength.

The Executors of Miss Brown paid he debts some
time ago, as you had wrote several letters

& I thought had not been sufficiently rewarded for
your trouble, when they paid me I charged them
one guinea on your account which I now inclose
and hope you will receive it

Dr Cullen
Edinburgh