120 MEMOIR OF DR WRIGHT. 



because I am fully sensible how much I shall by that means 

 strengthen the authority, if I may so speak, of the practice I 

 wish to inculcate. 



" I have, since I wrote last, had complete success in a case 

 of tetanus. Wine, and bark, and opium had been pushed to 

 the uttermost, and the symptoms were aggravating. I was 

 fearful of using water of the temperature of our air, the wea- 

 ther being then intensely cold ; and recollecting the success 

 of your practice in Jamaica, 1 heated the water employed for 

 affusion to 75°. The effects were most striking. The patient 

 himself afterwards constantly called for this remedy when the 

 spasms under the scrobiculus cordis pressed him, and clearly 

 attributes his recovery to this practice. I mean to print the 

 case, which is an excellent one. 



" I have just had a very interesting case of diabetes, to 

 which I have paid minute and constant attention. The pa- 

 tient is for the present well. The particulars, which include 

 some curious phenomena respecting animal heat, I will com- 

 municate to you and to the world. 



" I write in great haste. Once more accept my best thanks 

 and best wishes. Yours most faithfully, Ja. Curkie." 



Throughout the long life of Dr Weight there 

 was never the slightest abatement in the warmth of 

 the affection he maintained for his brother. This feel- 

 ing is strongly and uniformly evinced, throughout a 

 correspondence which covers a period considerably ex- 

 ceeding half a century in duration, and which suffered 

 only the casual interruptions arising from his occa- 

 sional residence in his brother's family. A variety of 

 extracts have already been given, and another is now 

 offered, as placing several of the leading features of 

 his character — his kind and considerate disposition — 



