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XXVI. An Account of the Cafe of the late 
Right Honourable Horace Lord Walpole ; 
being a Sequel to his own Account publijhed 
in the PhilofophicalTranfa&ions, V oL xlvii.. 
p. 43. and 472. 
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Copy of a Letter from John Pringle, M. D. F. R. S. 
to Dr. Robert Whytt, Profeffor of Medicine in the 
Univerfity of Edinburgh, and F. R> S. relatijig to 
the Cafe of the Right Honourable Lord Walpole ; 
with Dr. Whytt'j Atifwer . Communicated by Dr. 
Pringle- 
Read April 21 , 
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S I R, London, 22 Feb. 1757. 
Imagined, that upon hearing of Lord 
Walpole’s death, you would be de- 
firous to know the date of his Lordlhip’s health 
from the time he publifhed his own cafe ; whether 
he continued the ufe of his medicines to the laft ; 
what diftemper he died of ; and, if his body was 
opened, what was the condition of his bladder and 
kidneys. I informed myfelf, as well as I could, of 
all thefe particulars and I hope I fhall be able to 
give you fome fatisfadtory account of mold of them. 
Laft year, in the month of March, about ten 
months before his Lordfhip’s death, I happened to 
meet him at a friend’s houfe, where he dined, and 
never faw any man of his age with a more healthful 
appearance. He was then in his 78th year. He eat 
with 
