Thomas Beddoes to James Watt, 12 June 1804

Dear Sir

I am glad you are going to return to the calomel as I suppose mercurials in small doses produce a salutary excitement in torpid organs & so are tonics, if the term has any meaning –

Whether antimonial wine w^d not be a good addition, is a query suggested by y^r letter – & the form of wine preferable on acc^t of the divisibility of the dose –

Some other things have occurred, but my ideas are too crude to state – & perhaps Gregory will suffer himself to be removed hither, one of these fine days, in his way further west –

I beg my compt^s in which Mrs Beddoes joins –
& am
Dear Sir
Yr^s very truly

Thomas Beddoes

12 June 1804

Address: James Watt Esq / 42 Millsom Street / Bath
Endorsement: Dr Beddoes June 12^th 1804 / calomel / ant^l wine – // 1 Teaspoonful of Paregoric Elixir / 10 drops of ant^l wine at 7 o’clock
MS: LoB MS 3219/4/115/14

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