| Description | He is forwarding a letter sent to Leicester probably from Mr Hawkeens, surgeon at Dorchester to whom Pulteney had sent his thesis. Dr Garthshore, now in Bath, showed him Pulteney's letter. Glad that Pulteney has already had two patients. Continues to recommend Pulteney to friends with connections in the Blandford area. His son has visited Roslin Castle and found two curious saxifrages there, which he will preserve and bring to London.
He has received some excellent papers from Dr [William] Brownrigg of Whitehaven containing a series of experiments on mephitic (noxious) exhalations and medicinal waters, the result of enquiries made at Spa and Liège. He also has accounts sent to Dr Huxham from New England of "calculations of the numbers dying of the Smallpox, both by inoculation and contagion."
Postscript: He has received Pulteney's letter of the 18th. He will recommend Pulteney to Dr Stonehouse [Stonhouse] and Dr Huxham. Glad of Pulteney's success with Mrs Drax; her case "could not but evince the Superiority of your method in that dangerous disease, to the antiphlogistic." Thinks Pulteney should write to General Pulteney to inform him of his situation. He applauds Pulteney's continuing practice of botany and considers that his observations will greatly enrich the local history in a future Edition of Flora Anglica. |