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and admiral Edwards. Miss Woodley is indeed very 
handsome, a good prater, and a great simpleton, but 
easy and good humoured. 
27th 28th. Dined at the lodgings on the South Parade. 
29th. Dined at lord Rodney's in Gay street with lord 
Conyngham, two Misses Barton, Mrs. Ellis, Dr. and 
Mrs. Lee. 
3oth. Dined at the lodgings with Mrs. Amold. 
1 May. Left Bath ; dined and lay at Speen Hill—and so 
to Prince’s Court. 
The dining continued at home, until on the 16th May comes 
the entry— 
Sick and fasting 17th was bled and had a shivering fit 
of the ague. 18th. Took an ounce of Rochelle salt in 
the morning—(a griper indeed)—and beaume de vie in 
the evening—(another griper). On the 19th he was bled 
and in the evening again took beaume de vie. The 
zoth, 21st, 22nd, he was still sick in Prince’s Court 
and so continued very much the same until the 31st. 
Beaume de vie so often mentioned, being only a synonym and 
not in the pharmacopceia, was difficult to find to-day. It was a 
patent advertised medicine of the time, simply an extract of aloes. 
Socotrine aloes, myrrh, saffron, carbonate of potassium, extract 
of liquorice, tincture of cardamoms, and distilled water. 
There seems to have been no visit in 1784. In 1785 the spring 
visit was made in May. 
On the r4th May he dined and lay at the Castle, 
Marlborough. 
15th. ined and lay at Harford’s on the South Parade, 
Bath. 
16th. Dined at Mr. Plunkett’s in the Circus with Miss 
Plunkett, Mr. and Mrs. French, &c. 
17th. Went to Holloway fair. Dined in Pierpoint Street 
with Mr. and Mrs. French, &c. 
