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For Miss Rutherford.

Miss Rutherford's ailments whether Constitutional or acquird are liable
to be tedious & obstinate but can be generally relieved if
persons will employ the pains & attention that are always necessary. It is
hoped the following measures will answer the present case. In diet
she must avoid roots greens & other garden things, must
avoid all fruit & every thing acid as lemon juice, vinegar
or pickles. Her dinner may be of any plain meat but preferably
the lighter kinds & avoiding every thing baked or fried. She
may take a little fish but seldom & always sparingly
She may take of any kind of grain or what is made of it
but a well leavened bread is the safest. If she digests milk
easily she may take it either at breakfast or before Supper.

She must abstain from all kinds of fermented li¬
quors whether wines or ales. She may take a little
punch but without souring & with very little sugar. Much sugar
& all kinds of sweatmeats are bad for her. The only
safe drinks for her is plain water not quite cold. She
must also abstain from both tea & coffee & if she is
very fond of something in that shape she may take
Cocoa tea.

With this attention to diet it will be proper for Miss
Rutherford to go soon to the country to be there much in the
open air & take proper exercise. She may walk a good
deal but never so much as to heat or fatigue her. It will
be better for her to be often on horseback & till [all?]her
complaints are relieved she should ride for two or three hours
every forenoon that is tolerably fair.

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She should at all times take care to guard against
cold & particularly by thick shoes & warm stockings to keep
her feet & Legs always warm & dry. Any costiveness will
increase her ailments & when it happens she should take care im¬
mediately to remove it by taking at bedtime one or 2 of the
laxative pills ordered below. By these measures I expect her
ailments will be cured & that very little medicine will be necessary
But I have ordered below two medicines which I hope will be useful.
One of them to be taken dayly & constantly for some weeks the other
only when occasn may require.

The first is marked strengthening drops & 30
of them are to be taken in a glass of water twice a day an
hour before dinner & as long before supper. It will
be proper to take the cold off the water by putting to
½ a gill of spring water about ½ a tablespoonful of boiling
water. The other medicine is marked Stomachic drops, & fifty
or 60 of them are to be taken on a bit of sugar when pains of
the Stomach happen to be most severe. On such occasions
they may be taken 2 or 3 times a day but the seldom the better.