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print, and have thoughts of publishing a memoir on it. I 

 have entirely failed of a cure hitherto, but have some little 

 hopes, if the disease should occur again. My last patient 

 married about a fortnight before he died. He slept with his 

 wife every night till he died. She is pregnant: — a tolerable 

 proof this, that the disease is not communicated by the hu- 

 man subject. 



" I am happy to see that you take an active part in the 

 business of the College, especially as a new pharmacopoeia is 

 getting ready. 



" Dr Wells is my old school-fellow, fellow- student, and 

 friend ; as honest a man as lives, and of very superior talents 

 — but impracticable. He wrote to me on the subject of his 

 publication, and I threw out a few hints to him ; but I know 

 he will take his own way. There is, however, no danger 

 that he will commit himself rashly. He will not, I dare say, 

 excite any enmity against him but that of the Fellows who 

 support the pitiful system of the College ; and that system 

 will find in him an adversary, able, intrepid, and unrelenting. 

 I am glad you gave him the facts respecting yourself. It is 

 not possible to think of their conduct in your case without 

 scorn and indignation. 



" Allow me to congratulate you on your returning to the 

 bosom of your country and of your friends. May the re- 

 maining part of your life be as tranquil and happy as the 

 past has been active, useful, and honourable ! 



" Adieu, my dear sir. Your faithful and obliged friend 

 and servant, Ja. Currie^ 



On the 12th of March 1799, Dr Wright trans- 

 mitted to Dr Currie a paper of observations on the 

 second edition of his work, in which he details a num- 

 ber of cases occurring in his own practice, which coin- 

 cided in their results with the views of his correspon- 



