| Description Of Item | He takes every possible opportunity to get news of Cullen and his family and sends sympathy on the death of Archibald. He gives an account of Cullen's pupils in America: Blair died a year after his marriage to an 'invidious woman' who precipitated his death 'with no small aid from Lord Dunmore'; Lee 'has long entered on a political career' although neither fortunate nor happy; Steptoe, Campbell and Ball are dead; Griffin is still in practice; and McLarg enjoys the good opinion of all who know him.
He would like to repay his debt to Cullen by sending medical observations but is hindered by the dispersed population and their disinclination to call in a doctor 'until the last extremity'. He gives details of bilious putrid pleurisy as a growing disease which he has treated successfully with bark. He thinks it is spreading because of miasma from marshes caused by the local geography which he describes. He also writes that a lot of cases occurred during the war possibly due to 'hospital contagion'. In index. |