Having since I parted from you, been again summoned to the neighbourhood of Crook’s Place, I took the opportunity of giving Swann another look, I saw no ground for altering the opinion I openly expressed to you at our meeting; nor will I suffer the real issue in the case, the security and welfare of the patient, to be prejudiced by irreconcileable and strange disclosures which have been made, reflecting most unfairly and ungenerously upon me, considering the candour and frankness I have shown towards you, but to which I shall not now further allude, the real object of this note, being in my estimation of far more importance than professional differences; therefore, let me again beg of you to lose no further time in pursuing those measures, of which you at our first meeting expressed yourself as “sceptical or doubtful,” but at once to adopt more energetic means for the relief of the sufferer. Understand me, I do not mean for a moment to assert that the inflammation which you agreed existed, may not abate or be determined without the application of the leeches, &c., but surely the known sequelœ of neglected opportunity, such as ulceration, &c. ought to be thought of, and if possible, to be averted—they being as effects quite as mischievous in the end, as the cause—the inflammation itself; the only difference that I ever observed, being that the one destroys quicker than the other, but both as certainly. The patient begged of me to write to Mrs. Shirley, and state the facts of the case, and I cannot deny his request; but I will “nothing extenuate or aught set down in malice.” As you have admitted to me, that you occasionally give half-grain doses of opium and of quinine (allopathic doses,) as “homæopathic to disease” (?) excuse my ignorance, you will I apprehend, have no difficulty in carrying out sound constitutional treatment, with local means, in the case in point. I am, Sir, yours in much haste, W. WEBBER. St. Giles’, Sunday, Feb. 22nd, 1852. To Dr. Bell. “This shows that Mr. Webber went in my absence and talked to the man. I had told him to leave Swann in my hands, but instead of that, he visited him in my absence. Up to that night, the nurse had invariably told me that it was the injection which had injured him, but after that, Mr. Webber and the nurse seemed to have set him against my treatment. On Tuesday, the 24th, when I visited him, he would have nothing to do either with me or my medicine, and the nurse suggested that I should send for another medical man.