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You may wonder at my slowness
in acknowledging the honour of your Lordships
letter from Harrigate or ↑as↑ I hope you rather wonder
at an accidents having happened to the letter.
Indeed My Lord it is an accident's happening to the
letter that has occasioned my slowness for this could
not have happ & nothing but an unavoidable accident
could have made me slow in executing any of Your
Lordships Commands. Just when I received the letter
I was called into the Highlands & I thought it was not
proper either to carry the letter in my pocket or to leave
it on my table. I therefore locked it up, but in a place
that was at a hand but not a very usual one. I was
detained for eight days in the highlands & could not find
the letter when I came back again not till within
these two days, tho I have often Searched wth Some perhaps
too much anxiety. Now I have got it I must say
that your ailment's being owing to ↑a↑ translation from
the parotid may be true but it is unusual & not easily
understood & I would rather suspect some natural
weakness in the parts you now complain of. How¬
ever it may be I can ↑now↑ see no other means of relieving
of the complaint but by strengthening the parts
& while that is a doing, avoiding every thing that

For Strengthening Your Lordship very properly
employed Steel & I would Still have it continued.
What I take to be the best form I have ordered below.

The Rhubarb employed was I think hardly So
proper. It is indeed of consequence to keep the belly
regular as costiveness hurts the weak vessels you men¬
tion very much but the Rhubarb is not the best medicine
for obviating Costiveness & The Harrigate or other
Saline water is much better. Flowers of Sulphur

Besid In taking the steel Electuary it Should
be continued only for a fortnight at one time but
after intermitting it for as long it may be again
taken for a fortnight more. In the interval be¬
tween the Courses of Steel Your Lordship will be
pleased to take the Strengthening Electuary ↑Powders↑ also
ordered below. This Medicine is hardly to be got
in the Country of England but one Ingredient at
least The Uva Ursi must be sought for at London.
If the taking this powder is disagreeable Each
dose may be made with a little syrup into one or
two Bolusses to ↑be↑ Swallowed in Wafers. ----

Besides these Medicines I would advise Your
Lordship to the constant Use of the Cold Bath. --

Riding if always gentle will likewise be of
great Use in strengthening the weak parts.

By these different means persisted in for
some time I hope your Lordship shall find great
relief & it will give me the greatest pleasure to
have contributed to it. I must not however for¬
get to say that some attention to Diet is very pro¬
per but I had almost forget it as writing to one who
needs no advice to be temperate. But it is proper to
observe that Fish, Young Meats & strong Gelatinous
Broths which some are apt to employ in such Cases
are in my opinion rather hurtfull. Meat Suppers
are remarkably so. If with regard to these or any
other particulars Your Lordship shall desire any
further Explanation it will give I shall always be
ready to embrace any opportunity of shewing that
I am with the utmost respect & esteem -

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