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On the 5th of November 1803, he again writes to 

 Dr Currie, — 



" I am happy to introduce to you my excellent friend Mi- 

 James Macgrigor, surgeon of the 88th Regiment, who had 

 the medical direction of the Indian army when in Egypt. 

 He has every thing to recommend him as a gentleman, a phi- 

 losopher, and a physician. He has a vast number of medical 

 communications and observations on the plague and other 

 fevers of Egypt and of India. His extreme modesty, I fear, 

 may prevent him from arranging and publishing his materials .; 

 but I shall continue to urge his doing so, because I know they 

 will be extremely useful.'" 



On the 19th of June 1804, Dr Currie writes as 

 follows to Dr Wright : — 



" Knowing you will be interested in the publication be- 

 yond any body, I transmit by the coach of this evening, a 

 copy, the first that is made up of my third edition, in two 

 volumes, making in all between seven and eight hundred 

 pages. I intended to have comprised it in one volume, as 

 you will see from the paging, but found my materials, with 

 every care, could not be compressed sufficiently ; and since it 

 has gone to two volumes, I am sorry I did not give some 

 of my communications more at large. You will see I have 

 had frequent occasion to introduce your name ; and that I 

 conclude as I began with you. I flatter myself that you will 

 find nothing in what I have said to displease you ; and I have 

 no doubt you will find, that what human evidence can do, is 

 done, towards the establishment of our practice. Within 

 these few days I have rcceiyed forty cases from the house of 

 recovery at Cork, which came too late. It is not a little in- 

 teresting and singular to find experience so uniform on this 

 important subject. 



f* I have executed this third edition under constant bad 



