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Mr Watson Carr

yours concerning Mr Watson Carr came too late
yesternight but I shall now give you the best advice
for him I can. A constitutional and habitual Asthma
is always very difficult to Cure and this {illeg} that Mr
Carr seems to have been more violent and [seems?] to
have continued also longer than usual. In the mean
time you seem to have treated it very properly and
done indeed every thing that could well have been
suggested. Asthmatics do not commonly bear much
bleeding and you have been sufficiently cautious but
I believe the bleedings you practiced were absolutely
necessary. Vomiting so far as they bear it is com¬
monly a very useful remedy and when they do
not bear full vomiting {illeg} doses as Dia¬
phoretic are always useful and your intention

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of employing them now is very judicious. The other remedy
to be depended upon is Blistering which I hope you
are now practicing with advantage. I hope by the
means you are proposing and executing your patient
shall find relief but if that should not prove imme¬
diate and continue with any degree of fever the
Emetics and Neutral salts are the remedise to be
insisted on and if there is no fever I would certainly
advise a trial of anodynes which is so far as the
disease is spasmodic are both very effectual and
safe remedies. If with the same condition of the
above of fever the disease shall be alleviated
but continue in some degrees to linger you may
employ the medicine prescribed on the other page.

Wishing you heartily success I am with great regard

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✍ For Mr Watson Carr