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Honoured Sir

I am now at last in a situation
to thank you for your letter, dated so long ago
as the 27th of last month. and but written and sent
(I cannot but suppose) several days earlier, for the
day I received it to the best of my recollection was
the 29th, but I am certain not later than the 30th. On the Sunday after I think it was the first of this
month, I called upon Mrs Farr, to communicate to
her such of the contents as were communicable, and
to ick up the freshest of such intelligence as I thought
would be interesting to you or to to my mother, before I wrote,
that you might not be troubled with repetition. I intended
in the same view to have called upon Mr
Browne, and Mr Barret your other correspondents. I
was then a good deal indisposed, I had some slight
symptoms of a fever: and by that, and some troublesome
but neither very painful not at all alarming eruptions
the consequence of it, I have ever since been confined
to the house till within 4 or 5 days. I was
at that time attending a course of Dr Fordyce's lectures
on the practice of Physic, to which I had a
right by a former subscription. I reconciled that well enough
to my other studies, as it diversified them, and took in — up
but an hour before breakfast, which scarce ever is my time
for writing. I had already picked up a little instruction
relative to the management of fevers, of which I availed myself
very happily: the remedy I took having precisiely
< that effect I was taught from theory to expect from it. It consisted in
nothing but a vomit. Still there remained the eruptions:
these I was found myself unable to master without medical advice.
I preferred a Physician to a Surgeon. a Surgeon must
have dressed me every time: and I remember'd Mr Grindal.
One visit from Dr Fordyce enabled me to compleat
the cure. Appearing very trifling at first I had disregarded
them; and from the exercise I had occasion to take about that
time they turned to sores. They were seated uin the inside
of my right thigh, and on the scrotum on both sides. As they
were so critically seated though I was very soon freed from
pain, I durst not stir out of doors till they were completely
healed. Though I could very soon have written <lb/. I could not therefore go my rounds till 3 or 4 days ago.

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Identifier: | JB/537/351/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 537.
Date_1	1775-09-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings
Folio number	351	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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