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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, KESMG 1996.5.99. ALS; 4p. . Not previously published.
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We are just in the same state, except that the evil of the haemorrhoids is abated, or for a time removed. It is now
three weeks since the tumour began to appear, & for full half that time it has been to all appearance stationary, without the
slightest change. I have only discovered that Edmondson knows nothing about it,
for having positively pronounced it an abscess, which must ripen & be pierced, the last time I saw him, he talked of it being
coagulated blood, – the consequence of the labour, – which ignorant as I was I knew to be nonsense.x it renders sitting uneasy, & is felt in
walking – this I suppose is from the straining the skin. I had a notion that it might accelerate either the suppuration or the
absorption, whichever process may be intended, x by drawing sparks from it. What say you to this? There is an electrical
machine in the town, which I could easily procure & manage. – I forget whether I told you the strange effect it produced upon the
woman for whom you advised it.xxxxxx application that it was impossible to repeat it, – but some of the tumour disappeared almost instantly, &
her urine became bloody: – a very curious effect this, if it had fallen under the observation of a philosophical practitioner.
Edith is in bed 18 hours out of the 24. Laudanum agrees happily with her: – last night however she slept, for the first time without it. Her health has hitherto borne up well, – but she is very uneasy: – & I who do my best to keep up her spirits, & my own too, suffer much anxiety, as you may well suppose.
My movements are necessarily adjourned sine die.thermin closes.for me <one> who can
look back as far as I can do, ought to find it naturally & easy to look so far forward, – even tho the habits &
events of his life should not have disposed him to such anticipations.
P.S. Get a large prize in the lottery, & come & take the next house.