| Description Of Item | He asks if Cullen could write something for the third volume of the Medical Society. He compliments Cullen on Materia Medica. He has no medical news to report as the 'profession is prosecuted here more as a lucrative than as an honourable profession'. Natural history is more popular as it requires 'little expense of studious labour'. He reports that accounts of voyages by Dixon and Portlock to Botany Bay and Port Jackson have been published and animals and birds and other specimens brought back to London including 'a yellow resinous substance...as yet applicable to no use'. He welcomes the expansion of 'our language, manners, religion and laws' to a fifth part of the globe. He is now caring for a previous patient of Cullen's, Mr Maze, from the West Indies. He has been treated with electricity and lizards. In index. |