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Letter from Elizabeth Hume-Campbell (Lady Marchmont) to son Alexander Hume-Campbell, Lord Polwarth. Sorry to hear Alexander is suffering from yellow jaundice. 'Dr Douglas ordered Crafts ofr that disorder, to take fifteen or twenty grains of rhubarb, and as much soap scraped in it every two or three days. And I am told that swallowing the yolk of a raw egg every morning fasting is a specific.'

28 Feb 1769

From: 1769 To: 1769

The Douglas Cause was decided yesterday; Mr Douglas gained it without a division of the house. Saw many of Alexander's Berkhamstead friends last week. Had an oyster party last Saturday. News of the Gore family. 'My father's face is not likely to mend, I fear...'

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Hume-Campbell, Elizabeth,
Crompton, Elizabeth,
Marchmont,
Crompton,
Douglas, Archibald (1st Duke of Douglas),
Douglas, Archibald,
Crompton, Windmill,
Gore

family correspondence, CORRESPONDENCE, doctors, rhubarb, eggs, oysters, illness, jaundice, medicine, legal process