Letter 2672

Fol. 228 Since you have permitted me to acquaint you with my case, I beg leave to inform you, that before I waited on you, I had made up in the countrey, a frontal that I mett with in Dr. Fullers pharmacopoeia, compounded of mastick, frankincense, white chalk, bean meal, white of egg, oil of roses and vinegar as much as would make it fitt for spreading on a cloth, which was to be putt on a night, and taken off in ye morning, I desire to know if I may use this frontal whilst under your prescription, or if there is anything in those ingredients, inconsistent with your remedies, for tho’ it is a restringent, and by binding up the passages, may hinder the deflux of humours, yett it can only stop the effects, not affect and take away the causes, which only can be done by your internal applic, which I shall be sure to observe, and beg to know, how long I must continue it, and whether I must send for a constant supply of fresh remedies. I shall readily make my ack., when I come to town, for whatever trouble I give you upon his occasion… [P.S.] when my eyelids are clotted and gummed, I desire to know, with what I may wash them.