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I received your's of the 3d Curt per express from
Crieff & am under the greatest obligations to you for the friend¬
ship and concern you have shown me on this occasion. I am
equally obliged to Dr. Cullen though unknown to me for having
studied my case with so much care and attention and for having
given me his advice upon it with so much openness and Candour,
and ↑I↑ hope from the medicines he has recommended to me to be able
soon propria persona to recompense him for it.

It was certainly a very great omission not to mention any thing
about my spitting which I surely intended to have done. It is only
within this late that I had any spitting at all. From the first time
that the Cough seized me till a little before my leaving Edinburgh
although the Cough was as hard & violent as it possibly could be,
I had not the least spittle of any kind. Sometime before I left
town I was advised to take a Syrup composed of whitewine Vine¬
gar, a little honey, Kitchen sugar & the juice of a lemon, all boiled
together over a slow fire. Of this I took a Teaspoonful night &
morning and I am persuaded that this was the cause of bring¬
ing on first loosening the Cough, and occasioning some spitting,

As to Query second I neither have at present nor ever had
the least sickness or feverishness at any time of the day or night.
When I lie down at night I commonly place myself upon my
right side, and whenever I begin to turn to the left, my mouth
is immediately filled with a sort of phlegm & I cough & vomit
with great pain and violence, but nothing comes off my Stomach
except some sour trash & wind.

I commonly begin acoughing when I go to bed and continue
with little intermission till about 3 or 4 O'Clock of the morning
I continue waking all this time & it is somewhat surprising
that I have no inclination to sleep; but I have a great pro¬
pensity to sweat & when I happen to get a sleep in the morning
though I always lay myself upon my side yet I constantly find
myself ↑lying upon my back and↑ in a profusion of sweat when I awake. This commonly
happens to me every day.

In answer to Query 3d I have no sort of pain either of my

With regard to Query 4th my belly at present is rather open
or what I may call free. Sometime ago indeed I was very costive
but I took some Pills for a day or two which cured me a good deal,
& I imagine the great quantity of Churn'd milk I drink and
which occasions a great wind in my Stomach that commonly ope¬
rates downwards, may probably be the cause of this openness of my
belly.

With regard to the date of my Letter which you
think had lain so long by before coming to your hands,
the fact is, that it was a stupid blunder in me, who having
forgot the day of the month had recourse to the Almanack & very gravely
mistook a whole week, so that in place of the 20th it should have been
the 27th. This I hope will clear your doubts & perplexity about this
matter.

As I am so near the foot of the page I shall conclude with assuring
you that I am with great regard

To
Mr James Buchan
writer
in
Edinburgh

Mr John Henry
Recd 8th May
1779