Mean-while, I
remain always, - Dear Sir, Your affectionate humble servant.
LETTER XI
MONTPELLIER, November 12.
DEAR DOCTOR - I flattered myself with the hope of much amusement
during my short stay at Montpellier. - The University, the
Botanical Garden, the State of
Physic in this part of the world, and the information I received
of a curious collection of manuscripts, among which I hoped to
find something for our friend Dr. H - r; all these particulars
promised a rich fund of entertainment, which, however, I cannot
enjoy.
A few days after my arrival, it began to rain with a southerly
wind, and continued without ceasing the best part of a week,
leaving the air so loaded with vapours, that there was no walking
after sun-set; without being wetted by the dew almost to the
skin. I have always found a cold and damp atmosphere the most
unfavourable of any to my constitution. My asthmatical disorder.
which had not given me much disturbance since I left Boulogne,
became now very troublesome, attended with fever, cough spitting,
and lowness of spirits; and I wasted visibly every day. I was
favoured with the advice of Dr. Fitzmaurice, a very worthy
sensible physician settled in this place: but I had the curiosity
to know the opinion of the celebrated professor F - , who is the
Boerhaave of Montpellier. The account I had of his private
character and personal deportment, from some English people to
whom he was well known, left me no desire to converse with him:
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