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Your Ladyship will be very much and very
naturally surprized at the liberty I take in wri¬
ting and addressing to you this Letter; but when
I have mentioned my principal motive your
goodness and good-sense will excuse me.

I have heard today, by accident,
that your Ladyship's Daughter, Miss Pollock,
is at this time very dangerous ill of com¬
plaints chiefly of the Bilious kind, and that
her Physicians have little or no hopes of
her recovery.

Now if these reports be true,
I desire respectfully to inform your La'ship
that from the very great and peculiarly
succesful experience I have had in such
cases, and perhaps in most others, I can
promise, God willing! a very speedy, and
very perfect recovery to good and confirm¬
ed health --- and even if the case is of the
worst and most hopeless kind, pretty certain,
instant, and considerable relief. ---

Believe me, Madam! that this
is the second letter of the kind that I ever
took the trouble and the liberty of writin↑g,↑

The first was eight years ago to the Honble.
Mr. Fairfax at Bath, whose Lady was really
at the point of Death in a confirmed Jaundice,
complicated with a low nervous and violently
spasmodic disorder --- but of all of which
I very soon had the happiness of curing
her, and Mrs. Fairfax is I believe at this
time in most perfect Health.

My chief motive for troubling
your Ladyship with these lines, is huma¬
nity, and a sincere desire to be the
means of preserving the life and
restoring to health and strength an
amiable, and no doubt beloved child.
I am, it is pretty well known, too haughty
and too independent a spirited man to
stoop to ask employment in the way
of my profession from any one; but
humanity has once more got the better
of delicacy and the custom of the world;
and if the Young Lady is not so ill as
represented to me, I can safely depend
↑for pardon,↑ on the candour & Politeness that is said
to mark your Ladyship's character.

To
Lady Pollock!
St. Andrew's-square
New-Town.