Letter 2592

Fol. 68 I hope you will excuse my giving you this trouble when I tell you it is to aske yr advice for my Ld who has been out of order above this three months with a wheezing and oppression on his lungs, he thinks it came first by a cold, and has been blooded purged and vomited, but has found no benefit by it, he thinks his illness proceeds from a heat in his blood because upon any ill digestion he is worse, he has a constant heat and dryness and oppression on his lungs, he complains most when he lyes on his left side of the wheezing. He did not eat meat for two days and only drank milk porridge and rice milk and he thought himself much better, but upon eating meat this two or three days he has found an ill digestion and his wheezing and oppression returnd as bad as ever therefore I beg to have yr advice as soon as possible for my Ld having had this complaint so long upon him makes me very uneasy till it is removed which I have great hopes of from what you will order him and in doing which you will lay a gt obligation on… My Ld has drank asses milk this two mornings and I desire to know if you think that proper for him. [Sloane: venesect. emet. tinct. decoct. ammoniac. fontanelle super scapular]