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I did not arrive here till the 16th Inst.
& agreable to your permission I shall take
the liberty to ask an explanation, &
your opinion about one thing or other.

Mrs Kenworthy has now & then still
been troubled with the pain in her face
& will now begin regularly to follow
your prescription, but there is a doubt
barely my own, come into my head, if
the Blister wont contribute wont con¬
tribute to drain the Vessells of fluid
or watery particles, so thicken the blood
which circulates too much, I believe to¬
wards her head, I fancy might rather
obstruct than facilitate the circulation
to prevent any ill consequences of which
has been one reason I judge, for bleeding
her twice a year however I cant
pretend to understand any thing about
the matters, yet, can't not forbear
proposing my doubt to you. Her

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chief pain is in or about her cheek bone,
& a little above the eye, in the forehead, the
same side of the Face; her pain now & then
makes her talk of having the tooth drawn
which is huch'd, & indeed at times gives her
pain, but dont think it the cause of her
principal complaint.

As to myself, I cannot say I have been
often troubled with those disagreable involuntary
nocturnal emissions, but found my self
feeble & faintish, tho one day more than
another also sometimes a greater weariness
hangs upon me, at going out, than at
coming home from even a pretty long walk.
I bath'd thrice at Scarborough, [during?] my
short stay of 5 days, which / added to my eating
chiefly mutton & beef, & no vegetables [hardly?]
I think has done me good being but
little troubled with wind ↑& not so faintish↑ [Start of margin text] a kind of oppression on my breast & I cant get quite rid of & yesterday I found a slight pain on my left side near the heart, this day rather less & sometimes a kind of twitching pain on the right side. Perhaps is only wind[End of margin text], only am
grown very lean. I fancy one part
of my disorder might be a spoilt or
at least very weak stomach; my appetite
is rather better than it was. For my
breakfast I eat 2 Eggs boil'd 2
minutes, & after them a single dish of

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tea, with dry toast or if I spread butter
on it, is but little; after noon, instead
of Tea, I drink a little boil'd water mix'd
with brandy & milk, instead of tea. This I heard
at Leeds, had been recommended to one Mr
Dinnison there, by your self, whom he went
to Edinburgh to consult. I am proposing
further to drink asses milk, of which am
told, must take ½ an English pint in
a morning before I get up whither this
be propper along with the Pills you prescrib'd
& the same day with the cold Bath, / which I have
begun to use ↑F in the common way, have gone not very farr from my lodgings / ↑/ I want your advice about. Either
before or after breakfast I think to
ride out for about an hour, but dont
know if in bad weather, I had not better
stay at home. One symptom, I will yet
repeat, as I fancy I may have mention'd it
before, is that When I lay on my left
side, I feel a pretty strong pulse in my
head. When I have your answer to the above
wither, the whole be approv'd of, & a few hints
once more what I am to avoyd in my dyet
I think I shall perfectly know how to proceed, &
hope to do well, which & your advice to Mrs Ken¬

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worthey, will allways be gratefully remember'd
& acknowledg'd by

✍ 1764