HG12/6/6

to Charles Longuet-Higgins, 11 Southampton Row, Russell Square, London from brother, Henry Longuet Higgins, Turvey Abbey

post mark 23 Feb 1837

From: 1837 To: 1837

''I generally go out to see my patients about half past ten and get back at two (more or less) then I go out on the pony till five, come home and dine at six, go in to your museum, light a cigar!!! and begin compounding, at seven the house begins to fill and continues full till near half past eight at which time I generally get done'' discusses treatment and cases of Sar. Sharman , Eliz . Ayres , Jos. Wooding, (Long Tom) , Sar. Bailey, Wid. Rogers, Sar. Smith, Wid. Wesley, Phoebe Bell , the man Weed , Molly Sergeant and Dinah Wooding . '' Elizabeth Ayres, sick from eating a swede turnip. better. Joseph Wooding (Long Tom) dreadful colic. cured, I gave him castor oil, calomel & opium, and finished him off last night by an anodyne of Liq. Op. Sedat & Vin . Ipecac....'' thinks about 800 in Turvey have had influenza. I have sent a child of Elizabeth Wright's (used to be a servant at the cottage and now lives where Dinah W. used to live) to the infirmary for a very bad eruption of boils etc. all over him, he is much underage but Dr. Witt saw him happening to cast his eye on a fine old longed taled wine glass beautifully spiralled, he promised to take him in . The child is gone and the glass is the Doctors.''

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Higgins, Charles Longuet,
Higgins, Henry Longuet,
Witt,
Sharman, Sarah,
Ayres, Elizabeth,
Wooding, Joseph,
Bailey, Sarah,
Rogers,
Smith, Sarah,
Wesley,
Bell, Phoebe,
Weed,
Sergeant, Molly,
Wooding, Dinah,
Wright, Elizabeth

family correspondence, Turvey Turvey Abbey, London WC1 Russell Square, influenza, disease, servant, infirmaries