To W. W. Baxter? 17 January [1872–4]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Jan. 17th
Dear Sir
Will you send me thrice the quantity of physic herewith prescribed & kindly mark outside bottle in ounces & drams how much my dose is twice a day, as this is far more convenient than roughly graduated bottle.— Please be careful about the Nux vomica as I am rather afraid of this.2 If you think it a large dose for a man with a very poor constitution, will you be so kind as to inform me.—
Please also send 6 or 8 oz of Glycerine
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Milne, Alexander. 1869. Manual of materia medica and therapeutics, embracing all the medicines of the British pharmacopœia &c. &c. 2d edition. Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone.
Summary
Requests a prescribed physic [not specified].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8165
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Walmisley Baxter
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8165,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8165.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
