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For Sir James Dunbar.

I have heard from you sooner than I expected, for it is a
great deal for us to expect any effects of your medicines & we
shall perhaps never have any other sensible effects but
that of preventing the return of your complaints. I am
sorry you have so low an opinion of the power of Medicine
with respect to your ailments & I can only say that I dif¬
fer from you very much. I say farther, I have often
known them give relief, when I kow certainly there
was a stone in the bladder, & this relief without any
sensible discharge of Sand. Glad your Stomach bears
the ℥ſs of Soap, but it is quite enough. The dose of the
Lime water may be safely increased to a Chopin every day
& you may take part of it too in the time of your meals.
The oil I advised will not reach the kidnies but your
pains were not in the kidnies tho perhaps arising from
them, but were in the muscles of the back & there the
oil reaches very powerfully. As your pains are easy I
do not insist on constantly using the oil but must insist on
the constant use of the Flannel. The heat of this will not
do so much harm in a month as cold would in ten minutes.
If you take it ↑your dram↑ very moderately, your dram ↑it↑ is of little
consequence, but the seldomer the better.