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I have taken all the pains I can to study your consti¬
tution, which is very particular. It has exposed you to ailments
at Every different period of your life, but you have now got the
better of so many and have gone so far, that I think it may
by good management go as far as any other. But I must say
it is by good management alone, both because your constitution
absolutely requires a particular management and because medecine
can neither change it not correct it, and regimen only can either
do that or obviate the consequences.

The regimen I think necessary is in the first place
a diet entirely without Animal food, eggs or cheese. Every kind
of vegetables you may take at times, but it will be proper
for you to avoid the more flatulent kinds as Cabbage and
the colder kinds as Lettuce, Cucumber, and Melon. Raw fruit
you should also take sparingly. The vegetables you will take
most safely are all those of the grain kind as Bread, Rice,
Sage, Barley, Millet, and even Oatmeal. These you may have
dressed in what manner you like best. I would wish to have

them taken often with milk, but you think you do not digest it
easily, but I would have you try it first with an equal part of
water gruel sweetened very well with Sugar. This I hope will
digest easily enough, and you may either continue it so, or by
degrees you may withdraw the gruel and come at length to take
the milk by itself. With this diet you must take no kind of
fermented liquor that is neither wines nor malt liquors, and
water alone should be your drink. Tea and Coffee are
both bad for you, but a weak chocolate is very proper.

By this diet in this climate I expect you will soon
get free of those distensions of youre veins and of the pains
and palpitations which attend them, but you must at same
time avoid every occasion of being heated. You must avoid
warm chambers and many bed cloaths. You must especially
avoid exercise that may heal you. Dancing is totally inadmissible
and much or fast walking is very bad. You will be much the
better for being much abroad in fresh air but it should be on
horseback or in a Carriage, but in either case your motion should
be moderate. I expect that your vegetable diet will keep your
belly regular, and it is very necessary for you if your diet
should not answer to take frequently a dose of Cream of Tartar
This regimen will I hope be sufficient to keep you in good
health but if you have convenience for it you will also be
the better for taking the cold bath. To all this I would add
that Tranquility of mind is of consequence, and if you are
liable to be keen at play I think you should avoid it
altogether. If I am not full enough in this Letter give
me what questions you please and I shall certainly
answer them, being with great regard