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Give me leave to Inform you that
I have followed your prescriptions as near as in my power ––

In the first place I had my hip Joint fomented for an
hour every Evening for the first week with warm flannels
wrung out from Boiling; Afterwards I had Electricity Apply'd
every fore Noon, & the fomentations every other Eveng.; however not¬
withstanding all these Applications, I do not as yet find the smallest
Alterations; only that I think the Leg & thigh is rather more wasted,
which I suppose may be owing partly to my confinement ––

I dare say you will remember partly my describing to you
the manner in which I was first taken ill. About the Middle of
August 1782 I was taken in Bed with a Violent Pain all round the
small of my Back; next morning I went out to walk, but soon after
was obliged to return home to bed, the pain increasing attended with
a Smart fever, –– a day or two afterwards the Pain began to settle in the
right haunch, which deprived me almost entirely of the use of
the right Limb. The pain was so great for the first Eight days that
it frequently made me faint on Attempting to come out of Bed –
Afterwards it because periodical, in the day I was prety easy, but
towards Night the Pain began to Increase & continued till morning
which almost deprived me of sleep. In this situation I continued
for about two months, during which time I had a kind of puffy
swelling about the joint of the Knee, which Afterwards went off
& also the pain. I then began to move about upon Crutches tho I
had little or no strength, till at lenth I got so well as to walk only with a
stick as I do at present. I have no power to move the foot or Toes

To
Doctor William Cullen
Edinburgh
Post paid