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I beg leave to enclose to you a
memorandum concerning Colo. Clerk's state of
health, which I took lately by his desire at Rooke
Nest, and which you will find nearly a repetition
of his former complaints. I beg you will send him
up a written opinion as soon as possible, as it may
afford some temporary ease to his mind to have
the opinion of a person he has so much confidence
in. I shall look upon myself as indebted two
Guineas to you which ↑I↑ shall have the honor to pay
you on my return to town.

Colo. Clerk feels a general
weakness over his whole body,
and after any exertion a great
lassitude prevails. He is often
sick when out in the carriage
is always much exhausted at his
return home. He continues to
get no stool but what is forced
by Medicine, and ↑has↑ still that
fulness in his bell under the
Navel, & ↑contin↑ frequently a suffocation.
Colo. C. is willing to go wherever he
is most likely to procure strength
which is principal object at present
as he is comm generally pretty
free from bodily pain. His common
pulse is fm. 78 to 82

Colo. takes bitters every day
Quere would not bark if taken
in proper quantities help to
recruit his strength as it is
does not desagree with his stomach
and how it should be taken?
What wine should he drink at
dinner, & what quantity
& what is best meat for him.
There is some bark in his bitters.

Doctor Cullen
Edinburgh