264 CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 



If ever the book come to another impression, they may 

 then be added to it. My wife returns you her very 

 humble service by the hand of, 



Sir, 

 Yours in all offices of love and service, 



JOHN RAY. 



I am glad you have brought your Jamaica work so 

 near to a period, and long to see it in print, 



To Dr. Hans Sloane, at the 

 Lord Montague's House, 

 in Clerkeuwell, London. 



Mr. RAY to Dr. HANS SLOANE. 



Black Notley, October 16, -93. 



SIR, I received your friendly letter last post. I should 

 be ungrateful should I not take notice of and acknow- 

 ledge your great kindness in being so solicitous for my 

 ease and relief. But truly my ulcers are mail moris, such 

 as have hitherto resisted and frustrated all means and 

 methods of cure ; and I fear this last of mercury will 

 prove unsuccessful : for since my letter to Dr. Briggs, I 

 took another dose of calomelanos, and that a very mode- 

 rate one, of no more than x gr., and I am confident well 

 prepared, being done by our physician himself. But yet 

 this had the same effect upon me as the former, keeping 

 me waking all the latter part of the night, and withal 

 casting me into a sweat (which might happen by reason 

 of the warmth of the weather). The next day it purged 

 me pretty much, not ceasing to work till night. The day 

 following it put me into a feverish heat, which went off 

 the next morning in a sweat; then I thought it had 

 done, but on the eighth, ninth, and tenth days it purged 

 me again, but very moderately, and I know not whether 

 it be yet quite out of my body. During all this time I 



