My dear Grosvenor
Dr. Beddoes expressly cautions any person
from tampering with the fox glove – for it is, as all good
medecines must be – very powerful. [1] you must enquire for tincture
of digitalis. the dose is from ten to fifteen drops as the
patient can bear without sickness. perhaps Carlisle can
procure it for you. but it should not be used without
medical advice.
God bless you
I am in more miraculous haste than yourself – & must walk
to Bristol with this. I did not get yours till this morning.
you shall receive my book – direction as soon as we are
settled. I only know
festinati [2] the Lady of
rotundity [3] my book [4]
is printing.
Friday. 21 June 1809
<1799> [5]
Notes
* Address:
To/ G. C. Bedford Esqr/ Exchequer/
Westminster
Postmarks: [partial] JUN 21 99; TOL B/
JUN 22/ 99
MS: Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c.
23
Unpublished. BACK
[1] For Thomas Beddoes’s advocacy of the use
of fox-glove see his Essay on the Causes, Early
Signs, and Prevention of Pulmonary Consumption for
the Use of Parents and Preceptors (Bristol,
1799), pp. 265–271. BACK
[2] The
Latin translates as ‘hurry’. BACK
[3] Bedford
had written a ballad about an old woman, ‘The Hag’s
Disaster’; see Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams
Wynn, 14 October [1799], Letter 446. BACK
[4] A third edition of
Southey’s 1797 collection Poems. BACK
[5] 21
June 1809 <1799>:
Added in another hand. BACK
