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To Joseph Cownley (April 23, 1757)

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To Joseph Cownley Liverpool
April 23, 1757

Dear Joseph,

Your letter came to me

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    . Ted Perronet says Dr. Turner
    1See JW’s letter to his wife, July 10, 1756, where he urges her to see Dr. Turner.
    expects no fee at all, but will do you all the service he can. I sent to the Dr. before I left London. He said he had wrote his thoughts on your case at large, but had not yet had time to transcribe them. But he does not think it is a desperate case. When I talked with him concerning it, he said: 1) no physician hitherto seems to have understood it; 2) a proper course of medicines will probably remove the whole disorder; and if not, 3) an entire milk diet will hardly fail to restore your health.

    I will write to London, that he may send his thoughts directly. Meantime I advise you to apply, not a murdering blister, but a large treacle-plaster to your head, renewing it in twelve hours if you find any benefit.

    If after all Dr. Turner does not cure you, I am almost certain electrifying will.

    2JW’s Primitive Physick (1747 with numerous republications thereafter) suggests electrification as a treatment for a number of ailments.
     Courage, Joseph! I trust your deliverance draws nigh! If it does, be not less, but tenfold more serious.

    With love to Suky,
    3I.e., Cownley’s wife.
    I am, Your affectionate friend and brother,
    J. Wesley     82

    Ten days hence I go to Manchester, and then to Leeds. At Manchester we have an electrifying machine.

    I am obliged by the state of things there, to go into Yorkshire, before I go to Scotland. Therefore I shall not be at Berwick till June 9, at Alnwick till Sat. June 11th, nor at Morpeth, Placey, and Newcastle till June 13th.

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