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For Miss Mary Macleod.

Sorry you have had some return of your complaints.

I send two receipts --- One is an Electuary of which you are
to take the bigness of a nutmeg twice a day, that is once about
an hour or two before dinner & again about seven or eight
at night. It is disagreable to the taste, so you may take it
in a wafer as the easiest way. If this do not disagree with
you should take it for 2 or 3 weeks, beginning after one
monthly period & ending before another.

The other medicine is a vial of drops, to be taken only
when you are threatened with fits & of which I suppose
you may always have a little warning & when you have
you should immediately take 45 drops or so in a little water.
If this stop the fit & allow you to fall asleep it is enough.
but if it only delay the fit for a little, & it threaten
to come on again you should in an hour or less after
the first dose repeat it in the same quantity. It may
happen that a fit may come on, & in some measure go
off again but may threaten again to return. In this
case it may be proper to take a dose & perhaps a second as
you & your friends will learn to judge of, but you
are not to take more than two doses on one day. If you
have occasion to use these let us have information how
they do that I may advise more exactly. Besides remedies
you must take nothing difficult to digest. Keep your
stomach always light & particularly avoid every but the
very lightest suppers. Water is best for your drink
but at dinner or supper you may take a glass or two
of wine or punch. Exercise on horseback or carriage

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in proper weather, walk frequently but moderately. Cold bathing
may be of great use.

Let a large washing tub be brought into your chamber
& have a stool set in it on which you may sit down,
& have several bason fuls of water poured upon your neck
& shoulders & allowed to run down all over you or be carried
with a towel so as to wash all over you, dispatching it
however very quickly, drying yourself immediately, & putting on
your cloaths. You may at first, temper the water
by adding one part of boiling to 3 or 4 parts spring water
& every day after diminishing the quantity of the boiling water
till you can take the water altogether from the Spring.

Attend to the state of your mind. Guard against
every cause or occasion of emotion & especially Surprise.
With respectful compliments to Mrs Pringle & all at Stitchel
I am for such a young man as I am, must affectioinately
Dear Miss Macleod