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This comes to you by Mr Campbell
of Succoth whom you will be pleased to see in a
better way than when he was sent to you last.
When he came here in Winter; the sore under
his Eye was much mended from what it
had been in the Spring, but there is ↑was↑ still an
oozing from under the crust that left the issue
a little doubtful. By degrees however that
oozing became less and less till it is now hardly
any at all. In the mean time the crust
has been thickening, and contracting without
any fretting upon its edges, and I am now
hopeful that the crust will fall off and
leave a sound skin below, and I think it
has actually begun to do so. In this course
no sort of application has been made to the

part, nor do I think that any will be necessary
unless when the crust falls off, the skin belo[w]
should not be quite firm and dry. For this
situation Mr. Law and I have given him a
Solution of Saccharum Saturni five grains
to every ounce, and the whole a little coloured
with from ten to twenty drops of the Sp.
lavend. compositus. What may be better we
leave to your discretion upon seeing the
circumstances of the part. The progress of
Mr Campbells ailment has been so far as I
can learn exactly the same with that of Lord
Aboynes which was washed every day with
an Arsenical solution, and had made some
noise in this Country. Mr Campbell has conti¬
nued and does continue to take the Cicuta. I am
with the utmost regard