| Description Of Item | He describes his voyage from Cork to Madeira and his astonishment that his patient, Mrs Fraser, survived the voyage. Another patient, Mr Hunter, who had improved in Cork, died on the voyage. He complains of the damp and poor food. He has taken a flat with Mr Brown, Mr Cook and Mrs Fraser though Mr Brown is 'far from the state of recovery you imagined'. Fraser writes that his own rheumatism is worse than in Europe. 'I suspect for far gone cases this is not the climate'. He has seen a mummy from Teneriffe although not 'in such preservation as the Countess of Roxburgh in Holyroodhouse Chapel'. He writes of lizards as a cure for leprosy. He asks whether he can be of any use to Dr Walker and the Museum of Edinburgh in sending specimens. He has seen Mr Cortland and Mr Skinner and their families en route for Nova Scotia. He also recommends Mr de Freytaz, of the first family of the island, now studying medicine in Edinburgh. The letter was forwarded by Archibald Brownlie in Lisbon on 27th January 1787. See CUL/1/2/2037. In index. |