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I could not possibly wait upon you before you left this
but I hope this shall come to you in time. As long as you have
any tolerable weather, Mr. Crawfurd will be the better for getting
some exercise in a Carriage or on horseback if he can bear it. It is
very possible that you may still have ↑some↑ good weather for this month
and perhaps for the next, but after that you must keep Mr.
Crawfurd close at home for he will get more harm from the
cold than benefit by any exercise. His diet must continue
much as it has been. He may have a little Chicken broth or
beef tea at dinner, and he may have ↑two or three times a week↑ a bit of chicken boiled
or roasted, but for the rest he must keep to milk, grain &
vegetables, and his drink must be water, whey or buttermilk.
If you can get Asse'ss milk, I would let him have a little
new drawn cow's milk in place of it. This is his Regimen, and
for remedies I have few to offer. As soon as you are settled at home
let a Blister & Plaister (not very large) be applied between his
shoulders, and let a part of it be kept open as a perpetual Issue
If hereafter he should have any stitch, that does not soon go
off again, a blister applied to the part will be the most effectual
remedy. When he is not on a course of travelling, I do not expect
that he will be troubled with costiveness, but if he should, it must
be removed by his taking in the morning two or three drahms
of Cream of Tartar mixed with simple syrup, but I am rather
afraid that he may be troubled with a looseness, and therefore
would have laxatives employed very cautiously. If a looseness
should come on, he must employ the Infusion ordered below
The symptoms to be now especially apprehended is the frequency
and violence of his Cough, to relieve which I have ordered some