Letter 2626

Fol. 155 I took the Glister on Thursday night, which did not do very much, it having given me but one stool, and yet not a large one. I slept well on Thursday night, and on Fryday, had a great many little griping stools, I took diascordium yt night, and yesterday on the morn was a little griped. After dinner I had a prodigious large loose stool and two more tho’ not near so large … I went to Bed, the Humour was so sharp that ye passage was so sore it gave me a great deal of pain during ye time of the stool and some few minutes after. I slept late last night, and am pretty well this morning sometimes griped but have had no stool. It is very plain there is … a very sharp humour about me, which … be carried off. If you approve of it, I have already taken Rhubarb. I should think [that] would be right for me to take, manna, ye purging waters. If so I begg you would order it or whatever else you think proper for me, ye the servant yet … this letter may bring it down with him tonight. I conclude you will order me nothing yt need confine me to the House, for in every other respect I am very much …