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relieve by Opiates – I think the Earth can afford no spectacle so affecting as the sufferings of children - Heaven preserve all we love from such Sights! I have fortunately saved Eliza both from the Pain, to which this scene would have exposed her, & from all sollicitude about it, for she is yet a Stranger to the business & I propose to myself infinite delight in surprizing her on Sunday next, (when I am to meet her in Surry [sic]) with the glad Tidings of my recovered Patients –

Much as my little Hospital has engaged my attention, I have not been free from sollicitude concerning the Health of my dear Sister — your lethargic Complaint gives me great uneasiness (perhaps more \than/ the nature of it may justly excite) from the accidental Circumstance of my having seen my excellent