From Thomas Beddoes to James Watt   18 April 1804

Dear Sir

The sort of intermittent Mr Gregory Watt has had w^d appear to have been common this season – I have seen several instances – I suppose if his had not stopped it w^d have degenerated into the common general ague, as one of my cases did where the apothecary sent effete or inert Peruvian bark –

I sh^d think a quick enfusion of souchong, or even of green tea, administered once or twice a day, if any extra lurking fever arose, when that is beginning, w^d keep it off & mend his stomach –

I fear we shall have E & NE & little else for a time – I think after rain the wind always settles again in that quarter at this season –

I am in no particular hurry about the bags – we go on very well in our preventive Instⁿ & I have just got a young man to devote himself to researches with airs & in physiology who seems to me to unite hand & head in a very uncommon degree –

Mrs Beddoes begs her compt^s to yourself & family – I am
Dear Sir
Yr^s very truly

Thomas Beddoes

18 April
1804