Letter no. 77 - Letter no. 121

Dear Brother We yesterday recd. your Letter and are much pleased with it. I have intended writing to you a long time but have been lately so busy. In primis loco my father was at Poynings at a Labor a few days ago. and at 12 Clock in the Night I was calld. up to go to Ashurst, that Heny. Holingdale Junr. had Dislocated the head of the Humerus, so I found it when I arrivd, and reduced it with the first extension, the Caput Humeri was dislocated forwards under the Pectoral Muscle like Hy. Martins you know, hence I made the extension backwards and downwards. I have been to 3 Labors in four Days. Viz. Hy. Ganders Wife Cobbs mill Henly's Widdow at Hurst. Reeves's Wife Keymer, and Miles's Wife Middleton before these. so you see I am getting on a little in the Obstetric art. and have I think given up the name of dropping Dr. &c We recd. a Letter from Anne few days ago in wh. she says she is in good health and nothing more hardly. We should like to know if Pearman's Wife of Plumpton is in St. Thos's, or Guy's Hospital or not. it is reported she has the Lues, and has been under cure by Hudson of Lewes, this half year or more, and he could not cure her, so has sent her to town either to Guy's or yours. do you enquire into the nature of the disorder and send us the particulars. Pearman has been once or twice to Town to see her. We have had several patients with Dysentery and accompanyd with very high fever what is your method of cure? Chas. Goldsmith is dead. died of Typhus attendd. with Inflamn. of the Lungs he was ill only 15 Days. Mrs. Stanford of Preston is a good patient of ours We send her 8 bark Draughts twice a Week with Pil. Hematox. of whh. we use great many. her complaint is hemorrhage from the Intestines unacompanied with Diarrhoea or Piles. the Medicines have been of service to her. so she continues taking of them. Mrs. Bakers house is going to be sold by Auction. Let us know the exact method of sprading Emp. Adhaes.257 both on Linen and Paper, Blisters &cc And we wish for some pounds of your Emp. Adhaesiv. as can get none good. How do you make Emp. Vesicator? and spread Blisters. let us know. and every thing else that is new or different in Medicine or Surgery from our method of practice. Campions house is not let. Constable is going to have a sale and leave Hurst. Dodsons house is empty Parson Tom thinks of leaving Hurst. so that it is quite a deserted place. Where is the necessity for dividing the prostate Gland with the Scalpel? Why not use the cutting Gorget for that purpose? (debate that with your friends) What is fever?