100 MEMOIR OF UK WUIOHT. 



danger in a stout well-manned ship. I have with me 

 a Surgeon-General, Apothecary-General, a Medical- 

 Purveyor, and three hospital mates. All these assist 

 me in the management of the sick sent from the 

 transports. 



" The last letters from Mr Colman, state the 

 amount of my dear James's estate to be at most 

 L. 350 ; but this is independent of the Pondicherry 

 prize-money. Before embarking, I had arranged all 

 my affairs: need I say, that every thing I possess is 

 destined for you and your family." 



From Spithead he writes to Dr Garthshore, on 

 the 26th of November : " You ask me how early I 

 got the first hint of using calomel f It was ever a 

 happiness to me, that I enjoyed the friendship of the 

 late Dr Lind, and was conversant with his writings. 

 In his work on the diseases of warm climates, he takes 

 "notice of the East India practice of giving mercury in 

 inflammations of the liver, and of the late Sir John 

 Elliott treating patients with visceral obstructions 

 successfully by means of mercurial medicines. All this 

 I knew so early as 1760 ; but it was only in 1764 that 

 I began to give calomel in so free a manner as I have 

 done ever since, not only in hepatitis or splenitis, but 

 in all the other acute diseases I have treated of. It 

 was from reasoning in my own mind, and from ana- 

 logy, that I adopted the practice, and I have never 

 had cause to repent it. 



" I never saw any thing of Dr Crawford's Trea- 

 tise on the Liver, except what I read in the Monthly 

 Review, about the year 1773. I am glad to observe 



