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Dr C. Robertson Concerning Mr Stevenson

I am favoured with yours concerning The Revd
Mr. Stevenson and shall be glad to give you all the
assistance in my power for his relief but must own
the cause of such an affection is to me not very evident
and I am therefore more doubtful in giving my
advice. You observe that the Eruption was not
preceded by any fever and that notwithstanding
the irritation, the state of his skin might be
supposed to give his pulse does not exceed 80.
I agree with you that no considerable fever
but the irritation evident, the sizyness of his
blood and even the number of his pulse will not
allow me to think there is no fever at all and
therefore I think that his Brother and you
have done right both in bleeding and giving
doses of Glauber Salt and in employing the
Vitriolic acid and I am clear that these Antiphlo¬
gistic remedies and a regimen of the same kind

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should be continued as circumstances may seem to
require and from the same consideration of a
Phlogistic diathesis present I am rather averse
to the use of the peruvian Bark and not very
fond unless you had given me more reason than
you have done to apprehend a debility of the
System. I am not either very fond of opiates but
believe that these may be very necessary to
relieve the irritation from the skin which proba¬
bly interrupts his sleep and if care is taken by
cooling laxatives to obviate Costiveness good quiet
sleep will do more good than the opiate can do
harm. I am hopeful that under an Antiphlogistic
course this disease will gradually decline and
I would willingly let alone proposing any other
remedy than what I have prescribed on other page.
But if upon the decline of all fever any affection
of the skin should remain I shall be ready upon your
report to suggest some other remedies. I am with the
utmost regard

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For The Revd Mr Stevenson