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Ref NoDEP/HTW/2/5/6
Acc No2012/17
TitleLetter from James Jeffray, Rome, Italy, to William Hamilton
Date6 Apr 1787
TermCoughing up blood
Description Of ItemAddressed to William Hamilton. He reports on his own health (haemoptysis) and that of Mr Stirling and what he has observed of Italian physicians particularly one administering the bark as a salt. He describes Holy Week and seeing Pius VI 'Garrick could not have acted with more dignity and propriety'.
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