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I drop you a short line by Mr McDowall
formerly your patient, a very deserving young man
and a great sufferer for want of health, who has lately
been under my care on account of a slow fever, from
which perhaps he is not yet so entirely recovered as
to make a journey to Edinr advisable, - but his affairs
oblige him to go there.

I was favoured with yours of the 11th concerning
Dr Mutter. -- Mr Copland is just now gone to Edinr, and will
inform you fully of his situation, which, notwithstanding
some circumstances of amendment, continues, I think,
materially, the same as at first; although last night
he articulated two or three different enough syllables
better than I had heard from him do at any time before. - But
what I have to mention at present is that for these
two or three days, we have been distressed with the
return of his diarrhœa, which, though the discharge is
not very considerable, yet is very troublesome & fatiguing,
& has obliged me to think of some method of [reapraising?]
it. -- I did not choose to give opiates, but have prescribed
for him a common decoction of Bark, with the [astringe¬
cy?] of the medicine increased by boiling half the quantity
of pomegranate rind to (↑ in↑) it, &, towards the end, a small propor¬

To
Dr Cullen