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do not expect mv proportion until the spring. I have com- 

 plete specimens of all those which Dr Roxburgh formerly 

 sent to our Society, at your service. Do not speak of remu- 

 neration. Your kind acceptance and friendship will be my 

 best reward. Have you yet determined in what style the 

 specimens are to be put up ; the size of paper ; and whe- 

 ther they are to be bound in books, or to lie loose in fascicu- 

 li ? When you state all these particulars, I shall then pro- 

 ceed. 



" We have lost, 11 he continues, " our valuable friend Dr 

 Pulteney at Bland ford. He has left few in this country 

 equal to him in Natural History, and particularly in Botany. 

 His life of Linn.eus, and the lives of British Botanists, are in 

 every body^ hands. Dr Gakthsiioke is, no doubt, left exe- 

 cutor, and will have the disposal of his books and collections. 

 It would be an object well deserving the attention of the Di- 

 rectors of your institution, as you could better afford to make 

 the purchase than most individuals. 



" I have been more perplexed, 11 he proceeds, " in the ma- 

 nagement of patients in a convalescent state ; after dysentery, 

 than during the active state of the disease ; and many fell 

 victims, in spite of all the means I tried. A milk diet in ge- 

 neral did service. I varied the preparation from rice-milk to 

 rice-gruel, and light rice pudding. My specific was only of 

 use in the first stages, where there was morbific matter in 

 prima? viae to be corrected. I had some success in allaying 

 the irritation of the stomach and bowels by a slight infusion 

 of quassia, and a paring of lemon peel, made cordial by a 

 small quantity of spirits, or some aromatic spiritous water. 

 At other times I gave the disorder a happy turn, by the mix- 

 ture of camphor and magnesia. 



" But in acute dysenteries, if any of the symptoms con- 

 tinue, the smaller intestines are sometimes affected with topi- 

 cal inflammation, and consequent sphacelus. If so, our best 

 efforts may be applied in vain. In sound constitutions, there 



