| Description Of Item | The letter is addressed to Robert Whytt and is signed 'your most affct [affectionate] cousin'. Oliphant complains of the inconstancy of his patients which 'hurries them from one artist to another' and their aversion to dissection which makes it difficult for him to ascertain the causes of disease. He also comments on the number of 'scrophulous disorders' but has found lime water successful. He asks whether the operation of 'couching cataracts' has been used in Edinburgh as it has been successul 'in the infirmary here'. Whytt has used the reverse of the letter to describe the case of D Macdonald who had 'a hot fit'. |