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By desire of Mrs. Oswald I should have
wrote you ten days ago, to acquaint you of my
Lord Bishops state of Health; but deferred it,
in hopes of having better news to Send you,
For Since I wrote you last there has not a week
passed without giving us manny Reasons to
hope and fear about him. - All their things
have been packed up this Fortnight ↑past↑, and they
were to have Set out for Bath, by Port Patrick
on Friday or Saturday last; But upon Mon¬
day or tuesday he some how got cold, which
brought on a little feverishness to which he is
very Subject upon those occasions; and
which he has not thrown of as formerly, but
continues to have bad nights, no Appetite
for food, Especially any kind of flesh meats.

I believe I told you in my last that I considered
his Case as a Liver complaint Such as is commonly
called the Black jaundice, but I Still hoped in an
inferior degree, and what might be conquered,
by a proper Regimen, and Exercise, which has been
most attentively adhered to; with Such mild helps
from Medicine, as his bowels would bear; There
has been particularly as diureticks of every Sort,
gentle vomits; & sometimes Soap and Squills, which
never failed to make him very Sick - He now takes
Asses milk twice a day, with a Cup or two of Strong
Chamemile Tea, and any little light thing that his
Stomach will receive, without increasing his Fever,
but no flesh meats - Drinks little or no wine thro

James Oswald Esqu
Kirkcaldie
By Donaghadei Edenburgh