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I received your favours [by the?] Express & have the pleas¬
ure to acquaint you that the Bleeding Stopd Sooner than usuall
I had used the puls. Styptic. of the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia ¹ in Small Quantity
but I do not attribute the Speedy Stoppage of the Haemorrhage
to any use of it --- The fact is that it came on Soon after
an Erection & appear'd to arise from some Local Strain --
& therefore ceased so soon as the Effects of that were over --
I observe Your Opinion upon the Nitre but I have never been
able to find the Least Effect of that Nature upon him, his
efforts to make Water not being oftener than at the
distance of Some hours & that with Ease, Subject only to the
Slightest degree of uneasiness if any - I have repeatedly Seen
him make water about ℥viii at a time -- tis muddy,
wheyish Like Small Beer when made -- the Stuff that Cre¬
ates that muddy appearance falls to the Bottom Like a [thickly?]
Cloud & will mix readily again with the water as before upon
the Glass being Shaken - has no Smell - yet he persists

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in an ulceration or excoriation at the neck of his Bladder - He
yesterday told me that I might now see the matter or pus
if I would Look into a Little Bason where he had made
about half a pint of water, when I looked the water ap¬
pear'd to me as Good an any healthy persons - but at
the Bottom there was Like a drop of Something Lying
which upon pouring the water off & taking betwixt my
fingers appear'd to me Like that Sebaceous sort of Substance
that is Sometimes behind the Glans Penis - Upon Rubbing
it betwixt my fingersit did not Like pus melt away
& dissappear but Left rather a firmish Substance
there -- this is what he Calls pus -- I own I can See
no Sufficient reason for supposing it such, but I would
not upon any Consideration have You Lean to my Opinion
but Judge as much for Yourself as my description will

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enable you, my design is to have him better if possible
but I fear if his tail were well -- there would Still re¬
main above something unsatisfied -- Your Opinion
is exactly what I have repeatedly told his Surgeon, But
which I dare not tell him as his knowledge of it would
make him miserable -- He has all along used the Emulsion
arabic -- & Decoct. aether. -- He proceeds in this way, but
I could wi[sh] for his Satisfaction that you would recommend
the Best Mode of treating it as an ulcer since he'lls dete[r]¬
min'd to consider it as such -- His first Letter would Show you
this to be his favorite Idea -- In respect to regimen tis the
most Exact in Nature not having tasted wine this 12 months
nor any fermented Liquor - drinking Constantly Bristol water
I was rather sorry to See in yours a recommentation of keaping
his bed - for we have the utmost difficulty when well to Get him
up - altho sometimes a Little chearfull - at most times he is so Gloomy
[&] desponding & acts so oddly as to form one of the most singular characters
you can suppose -- but this is under the rose ² -- I beg your Answer

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Dr. Cullen
Edinburg

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Mr Hall
about Anthy Wilkinson December 1st. 1774.
Vol. 1. p. 143. Vol. I.1L