And therefore in the Beginning of _February_ last, I could no longer forbear expressing my Fears to the Doctor that it would terminate in a raging _Cancer_. He was too sensible of it, and told me, “That since I thought I could keep it within Bounds no longer, He was resolved to try what a _Salivation_ would do:” And though I could say nothing as to the Advantage he might expect from it, yet I frankly owned to him, that if it was my own Case, I should be of his Opinion, that I might make bolder with my self, than with any other Patient: But desired by all means, he would first hear if his Friends, the _Physicians_ and _Surgeons_ in _London_, had yet any other Method to propose, or else would approve of that. He wrote to them, the Answer was long in coming, which made the Doctor express himself to me with more Warmth, than I ever knew him to do before: (For he was a Man of the greatest Command of himself, as well as of the sweetest Temper) “What, says he, is not their Silence enough? And will not you, whom I take for my Friend (for fear of losing your Reputation) assist me in what I desire?” With a great deal more to assure me of his Confidence in me, and of his Opinion of my Ability to take Care of him in the Course. I am not so vain, as to mention all his kind Expressions, yet if it be desired, by any of his Friends, I will give them the Satisfaction of seeing the Letters I had from him, when he was absent from me in _London_. At this Time his Brother, Doctor _John Keil_, came to him from _Oxford_; and, as I understood afterwards, had seen Dr _Friend_ there, who was for having him salivated at _London_: But the Doctor being determined to the contrary, did not at that Time acquaint me with it, but began his Course, which I desired might be in the mildest Method, by small Doses of _Calomel_, encreased gradually, which Method pleased him very well: But Dr _Friend_ (to whom Dr _John Keil_ constantly sent an Account of our Proceedings) gave it as the Opinion of Mr _Palmer_ and Mr _Brown_, that it should be done by _Unction_: I gave my Reason to the Patient against it, but they still pressed it, notwithstanding the ill Symptoms, that I thought, at that Time, forbad it; which Symptoms they had been acquainted with. They still persisting, I desired the Doctor would give me leave to write my Opinion my self to Mr _Brown_, which I did hastily in the following manner. Good Brother,