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I could not allow the
opportunity of your patient Mr Brisbanes
going to Edinburgh to pass without
writing you. As one of his principal
errands there is to see you I need say
nothing of his present state of health.
He has continued the Infusion & Pills
regularly, & tho both have been encreased
in strength they have produced no effect
that would require their being stopped.
The mercury he has taken exactly as you
ordered & as yet he has only once been
obliged to leave it off as his mouth was
growing sore. Since he came to Glasgow

I have tapped him twice, the last time about
a week ago, at each operation there
was nine scotsh pints of water drawn
off. He lately begged he might be allowed
to take as common drink some of that
decoction he had taken in England;
as the principal ingredients were Arti¬
chokes & Juniper berries I indulged him
in it, as it was in no way counter¬
acting the medicines you had ordered.

Poor Mr Hopkirk died last week, his
medicines were left off sometime before
his death as he was so weak that ↑we↑ were
affraid he could not bear them.

I had not an opportunity of opening
him which I regret much as his
complaints were new to me.

Lady Stuart about a fortnight ago was
tapped & had eleven scotsh pints of
water taken away, she bore the opera¬
tion very well & since it she has I
think been better. She takes the Artichoke
infusion in the same way as you
ordered it for Mr Brisbane, she takes

likewise some cream of Tartar to keep
her belly open & to promote the discharge
by urine. Besides the ease the operation
has given her it has been attended
with this good effect that her water has
been much encreased in quantity she
makes one day with another near a
Choppin & the day after the tapping about
a scotsh pint of water. There is evidently
still some fluid left in the
abdomen but it does not
seem to have encreased.

My Father has I think been rather worse
since I was in Edinburgh, he is now
incapable of walking, he complains
much of pains & spasms in the side
affected & got no sleep at night. Dr Stevenson
& Mr Wallace allowed him an opiate which
gives him rest thro the night. His pulse
is natural & he has no complaint
whatever in his head. He & my Mother
join me in best complements to you
Mrs Cullen & the rest of your good family

Dr Cullen
Edinburgh