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Mother fall a Victim to a horrid distemper of that Kind - Tho I trust that yr Malady is very different in some essential points, I cannot help being alarmed about you, & I must conjure you to fight against so insidious a disorder by every possible mode of resistance—if you are precluded by yr unlucky accidents from using the natural exercise of walking, or riding on Horseback, you may find great benefit from artificial substitutes for these Quickeners of Circulation, particularly the constant use of The Flesh Brush & sometimes the Cold-Bath. – I most seriously entreat you to use the former with unremitted application, for I verily believe it is, what I once heard a very sensible Physician call it, the best article in the Materia Medica