Letter 2631

Christian Lyttelton to Hans Sloane – March 20th


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Date: March 20th
Author: Christian Lyttelton
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: ff.65-66



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f. 65 Sr. The last time I had the pleasure to see you when I was In Town I sent for you being then very ill of a fit of the Cholick which brought a violent Flux upon me, as soon as I was able I sett out for WorecsterShire, I have labour’d under that complaint almost ever since but by great care kept it under I found good by a Poast in Water, and taking your Powder, but I must inform you I had a feverish disorder that attend’d if which when it was intermitting I got off by the Bark, a Month ago I had a fever that Inflam’d my Lungs, bleeding and (65v) Bark took it off my illness, but ye pains in my brest returning I resolv’d to drink Asses Milk and when I begun it I believe the fever was yet a little upon my Bowels which made it have so terrible an effect as Doctor Camerons Letter to you informs you, he has made a mistake as to my taking Snaw Water upon it for there was at least five ^hours^ distance between them, as to Landamum, I assure you I have kept my promise and never exceed’d Fifteen Drops at night and morning and seldom So much which ^cannot^ hinder the effect when necessary I am advised to try the Bath in the latter f. 66 Season that is so long that there is time to consider about it but if good Sr Hans can advise me to any method before to do me Service I beg desire you will, I am as thin as possible but thank God my Spirits keep up wonderfully and I have no Histericks my Blood was very good when they bloody’d in this inlness, and I have some appetite. i am regular as to the time, I am dear Sr You most Oblig’d Humble Servant C. Lyttelton Doct. Cameron has forbid all Milks, Hayley March ye 20th

Christian Lyttelton was the daughter of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Bt. and Christian Temple. She married Thomas Pitt, son of Robert Pitt, and her married name became Pitt (G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 504).




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