Letter 2606

Fol. 110 Mr … perfects in ye use of your medicines prescribed all but ye … instead of which I have ordered ye diet drink and ye … alternatively, for he has but one stool a day and that not loose. hectic and assault of fever nightly. no sweats. losing flesh. …I am altogether of ye opinion Sr Hans, that ye country would do him more good than we can. The patient chooses Camberwell, because he has rec’d benefit from that air before. Porters might easily carry him down stairs and a house…is not very fatiguing for a hour. This fine weather I bid’em open ye windows in ye middle of ye day, and ye air seems to refresh him: he is weak but not more than when you saw him last, and to my thinking ye stamina…are yet more firm, than that he should dye by ye way: but as I entirely submit to your sagacity I shall do nothing without your assent: his cough is considerably less than it was and, what I wonder at, without any increase in ye Dysporea. A fortnight ago I pronounc’d him dying; I have often thought of it since I am not yet certain, whether I ought to accuse artis vanitatem … however I shall make no more prognosticks but con’t to be diligent in observing and praying God for more knowledge…