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cularly informed of any of thefe circumdances, let 
me know, and I will endeavour to procure you all 
the lights I can. In the mean while, I Should be 
glad to have your remarks upon what I have now fent 
you ; and fince you have been fo long in the train of 
thinking, with more than ufual attention, on this 
fubjed, I prefume it would be very agreeable to the 
gentlemen of the Royal Society to have a paper from 
you on this occafion ; and the rather, as his Lord {hip 
began his courfe of foap and lime-water, upon hear- 
ing of your fuccefs by that method of cure. I am, 
S I R, &c. 
John Pringle. 
II. 
Some Obfervations on the Cafe of the late Right Ho- 
nourable Lord Walpole, of ’Woolterton : In a Let- 
ter to Dr. John Pringle, F. R. S, By Robert 
Whytt, M. D. F. R. S. 
S I R } Edinburgh, March 16. 1757. 
Read April 21 , T)Hysicians have not, perhaps, dif- 
* fered more widely in any thing, than 
in their opinions of the medicines lately propofed for 
the cure of the done. While fome imagined, that 
Mrs. Stephens’s medicines, or foap and lime-water, 
were in mod cafes to accomplish a diflolution of the 
done ; others have been podtive, that nothing of this 
kind was to be expected from them : nay, they have 
condemned thefe medicines, when ufed in large 
quantities, and long perdded in, as hurtful to the 
Vol. £0. Ee domach, 
