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Mr Whyte Concerning Mr Brodie.

I am well acquainted with the obstinacy of retrocedent
gout, & I have never known any remedy very effectual
for relieving it but a journey & It was there {illeg} that I insisted upon
it but there is no more to be said on that subject now. If I mis¬
take not there is an erysipelutous inflamation affecting
the whole length of the ailementary canal & I wish you would let
me know if you have or shall observe it appearing in
the mouth & fauces. However that be, it is plain that there is such
an irritability in the stomach as will hardly admit of any
remedy (↑medicine↑) to be of given by the mouth. If you try any let it be
the cooling mixture prescribed below, given either in plain
water or better in arabic emulsion. I see now the reason
why opiates have given him so little relief but they maybe
still necessary as they are the only means of relief. -
Instead of the opium Pill I would advise you to try Laudanum by
Injection. It To make him keep it you must give
above the bulk of two or three ounces of water with a
dram of Gum Arabic dissolved in every ounce of water.

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In such injection you may put fifty or Sixty drops of L. L. -
more or less as his present dose of opium is. If these can be
retained they will moderate both vomiting & purging the best
time for giving them is about a quarter of an hour after a
Stool & let [your?] pipe give as little irritation as possible covering
it if necessary with a piece of hen gut & throw up the Liquid as
far as you can. . The empl. calidum was a durable but feeble
remedy. I will not promise much from blistering but it in this
case every possible remedy should be attempted. Lay a blister there¬
fore to each leg & according to the effects repeat the elsewhere.

For Mr Brodie