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Bishop of Man

Your's from Kircudbright gives me a
great deal of concern but I hope as you do that when
my good Lord Bishop gets home and there with
some rest with (↑and↑) the proper medicines as prescribed
I expect he will find the benefit of them as before.
But I must observe to you that we have been obliged
by degrees to increase the force of the injections and
have apprehended that it must be increased still
further. You did therefore very properly try to do
this by adding another spoonful but as you had
them compounded it happened to be too small
an addition and the only advice I can now offer
is that when you get the mixture we prescribed
to be added to the injections instead of taking
a spoonful you must take a spoonful and a

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quarter or perhaps a spoonful and a half as occasion
may seem to require. If you happen to find any
difficulty in this matter Dr. Scott on seeing the
whole of our Advice and prescriptions cannot be at
a loss in perceiving the whole of our plan and in
directing accordingly. Please observe to him that we
wished to avoid if possible the constant use of injec¬
tions and did advise My Lord to Omitt them now
and then and to try sometimes to supply the omission
by an Anodyne draught given by the mouth and
if it shall now be found that the injections do not
answer their purpose so well as before, that
other measure will be more necessary. Waiting
your further report, with respectful compliments
to my Lord Bishop I am