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Dr William Wright at Crieff

I feel your concern & would do all in my power to relieve
both you & the good old man. As the suppression had continued
so long the Bladder must have been much overstretched,
and its tone by that means very much impaired. To recover
that lost tone at your fathers age, must be difficult but not
to be despaired of, but it can only be done slowly & by a constant
attention to avoid any renewal of the Distention by the
frequent use of the Catheter, it is to be hoped the Bladder
may gradually discover some degree of Strength.

What will assist it is difficult to say but you have
very properly applied the garlic onions &c

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which so readly go to the bladder may gently stimulate
there but I cannot so clearly approve of fomentations
and cataplasms which are rather relaxing remedies
Tonics are certainly better suited but it would require
a large quantity of Bark and that long continued to have
any considerabley effect, it is [proble?] his stomach would
not bear what might be necessary There is another
tonic which I have very often employed & with
frequent success in weakness of the bladder & that is
the Uva ursi {illeg} from half a dram to a whole
dram two or three times a day. The best drink in cures
of this kind is a weak punch made without lemon
& if possible with genuine gin I suppose you take
due care of the belly as is necessary in such a case.