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the next morning ( it was at going to Bed that I applied it) so
I did not repeat it — Since then I have put sometimes
Conserve of between a rag doubled, with a few drops
of Solution of Camphor in Spirit of Wine dropped upon it, sometimes the Conserve
alone, It was a prescription (voluntary and gratuitous
prescription) of a Physician a friend of Mr Lind's. What efficacy
of it may have as far as I can judge, seems to depend entirely
upon its mechanical properties. By its' glutinous consistence
fit to retain moisture it adhears applies itself closely to
the eye, and covering it, (the eyelid you are to understand is
closed) prevents the water of the Tears from evaporating
and leaving the matter in the form of a Gum
which you know is troublesome by its hardness.
the Air which it serves to exclude, that is the grand promoter
you know of evaporation — But I am
increasing my blindness which I am giving an account of it
Every Candle in the Coffeehouse is surrounded with
and luminous circles in all the colours of the
Rainbow — Give little of scraping & raking money together
as if you were poor. Our riches here have made us as
poor as poor can be — The Bank is looked upon and my
Father's Executorship has made him for this 3 weeks an absolute Beggar — I received the from the Dr

before you he left Town: but it is gone the way all other go with me— If you were
to skin me alive this instant you could not get it out of me — You would get just so
much and no more out of me as you would out of a Cat, viz: that is to say the Pain
My Father's pain is as long upon the occasion, as a reasonable man's arm.
You would think he had neither property not credit.
Adieu mon Frere. J.B.
April 5th

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Date_1	1774-04-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings
Folio number	282	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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