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Revd. Mr. Stevenson

I am glad to find from yours yesterday that
Mr. Stevenson is in a way of feeling better and I am
confirmed in the advice I gave you for a cooling regimen
and particularly by this that the opiate did not an¬
swer in the beginning of the night which shows to
me that there was some inflammatory exacerbation
at that time. I should be glad to find that he can
do without the opiate altogether.

I would not wish to insist on purging and I am
persuaded that the glyster every day will be sufficient
for his keeping his body cool.

You do not tell me what his pulse is at now
but if it is as I expect under 80 that it was at formerly
you may begin to give him a weak decoction of Guaiacum
and Sarsaparilla and to the quantity that he is to take

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in twenty four hours from two drachms to half-an-ounce of Antimonial
wine, that is, so much as in divided draughts he may
bear without having his stomach disturbed by it, though
a slight squeamishness that is quite transitory may
be sufficiently proper. If any part of his skin is more
refractory than the rest it may be touched with the
following Ointment on other page and according to the
effect you may extend the application of it. This is all
that occurs to me at present and with Compliments
to him and his Brother I am

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For The Revd. Mr Stevenson