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I am under the Neadcessity to trouble
Yow once More with regard to My Disorder,
in Yowr last You Strongly advised m me to the
Cold Bath; But Did not lay doun any Derections
To walk by, and as I am in Such a weakly
way and the Nerves So Debita Debilitated, I did
not think I Could attemp it, with Seafty; and this
makes me put Yow, to the trouble of an answer:
which I Beg Yow, may excuse. ––

But in the first place, it will not be improper
To Give Yow, an Account of the State of my
Health; Since Your prescriptions. ––––

as Soon as Yowr Receipt Came to Hand, I
Began to put this (↑it↑) in practise: and by Degree↑s↑
Brought My Self, to Stand the open air
without Suffering any thing by it, unless the
Air was very moist. So that I Continowed
Out untill the middle of December, and hoped
to Stand out During the winter: But about that
time, there happened to Come on very Damp
Unhelthful weather, So that a Great Deal of
Healthy Peopel, was affected by it: and then
I was Seased with a fever, for Several Days
that weakned me So much; that that I was
Never fit to walk out untill the middle of
April. But I was not Confined to a Room
for any time, But walked throw the whole
House and always let in a Stream of fresh
Ayr; which I thought of Service. –– but the
winter and Spring being So very Sevear,
Made me Suffer much by it. I am alwise
wors in the Spring then any other time of
the Year: –– and am very –– feeble and
Relaxed at present. –– but nevertheless
I think my Self Considerably the Better of
Your prescriptions: –– and was in a fair
way of Coming to, before that Turn that I took
in winter. the keeping out after the weather
Turned Cold Strengthned me a little, and I
found that the perspiration keeped better
out, then it had Done for long: and I was not
troubled with those perpetual Spasms
that had afected me So long:

Long But the Confinement Brought them on again
in a Great mesure and I am very Much afected
with Spasms at present Especialy my Back
which is Seldom free of them

I Road a good deal last Summer and thought
My Self a little the better at first but the Season
turned So hut that I was obliged to Drop it as
it relaxed me with the heat. I have applied Constan¬
tly to the tincture and takes it as Derected
I have likewise Bathed my hands face and
Head with Cold water this long time But would
never been Capable to Come to that had I not followed
Your Derections of tempering it at first and
Nevertheless I Suffered by it at first –– the only
advantage that I have reaped by it is that I Can
Stand the Air a little the Better –– the Steel is the
onley Medicine that ever I agreed with Since I have
Been So far reduced it was an Excelent Degestif
I Cannot Say that I have been Much troubled with
Bad Degestion ever Since I Begun with it
and has had a Great Deal better Stomach then Before
But Since the Spring Came on my Stomach is much
wors and alwise is –– But although the Tincture
is an exelent Degester it has not Strengthned the
Body any thing to Speak of which I think is very
Strange as Steel Gets Such a Character for Bracing
the Nervous System –– I was much fitter last
Summer and harvest to Stand the Cold then I was
fit to walk the Strongest time that I was I Could
not walk from the one end of this Town to the
other and Back again without a rest (which
is But a Short way) or if I had I would not been
fit to walked any any for Some Days –- it would
Straigned me So much = and those places of Me
that is So Extream weak is Both my Sides
and the mouth of my Stomach –– for if they were
as Strong as the rest of the Boddy it Self I might
walk much further –– and I alwise observe that
what ever place the Disorder is in of these three
(for there it Mostly Centers) that has the Sorce of the
Greatest weakness for the time –– and the Extreme
weakness of these is a very Great Crush upon Me
as I am alwise afraid of the Smallest Stress for
fear it Shuld Bring on a Rupter –– I Cannot
Lift Twenty or thirty pounds of any thing But
it will Straign my Sides that they will not be
So right for Some ––––

Days So ↑the↑ that the [th]ing that makes Me
So Desirous to trie the Cold Bath is that if
I Could Come to it and would agree with it I might
Possabily Come to Some Strength So as I might
Be able to Exercise my Self m by walking
without Straigning my Self ––––

I Belive if I Could Got Constent Riding I would
Be the Better of it But that Cannot be had
in this place unless I had a Best of my own
and the Cold Bath is a thing that I Could
applie to Constantly providing I Could be
Brought to Bear it –– So I Beg Yow may
Inform Me how to proceed –– and houther Yow
think fresh water or Salt water Be Best
for me as they ar Equaly Conveinent
and houther Yow'll advis me if I Bath in Salt
water to Bath in the Sea or Bring it in to a
House –––– I was thinking to Begin with
Bathing my feet in water tempred as Derectd
for my face and hands and when I had brought
My feet to Stand it Cold to re↑a↑se it By Degrees
up my Legs and thighs with an intention
To make me Come to Stand the Cold Bath with
More Safety but was afraid to venter untill
I would ask Your advice ––––

I have reaped very little Benifite from any
Internal aplication or needs not Expect to Do
as Long as I Cannat Stand all weathers and
if there were a possability of my Bearing Cold
Bething I would run little Risque from the
weather –– My Desorder is more favourable
in Several Cases then it was Before I Consulted
Yow though Still Bad Enough –––– I have
More natural heat then I had I am not Subj¬
ect to So many sudent turns as I was before
I Con Stand the Open Ayr without suffering so
Much by it I Can wesh in Cold water all which is
Something gained –– please let me known if I
Should Continue to take the tincture alwise
without making any Stope as I am afraid it
may turn Customory and not have the former
efect –––– Your answer to the above will
Be very Exceptible to

Doctor Cullen Professor
of Physic in the
University of
Edinburgh