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Darwin Correspondence Project

To W. W. Baxter?   10 November [1872–4]1

Down.

Nov 10th

Dear Sir

I am sorry to cause you trouble, but I shd. greatly prefer an enema with shorter nozzle, viz 2 inches or 2 inches & 14, measured from the top of the ivory collar to the extremity of the nozzle.— I find also I shd. like the whole enema a little larger, viz about 14 of an inch higher, but if you have none such, the size of the one returned would do.—2

Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

The date range and recipient are established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to W. W. Baxter?, 8 November [1872–4].

Bibliography

Browne, Janet. 1998. I could have retched all night. Darwin and his body. In Science incarnate. Historical embodiments of natural knowledge, edited by Christopher Lawrence and Steven Shapin. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

Summary

Would greatly prefer an enema with a shorter nozzle but with a somewhat larger diameter.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13774
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
William Walmisley Baxter
Sent from
Down
Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Physical description
ALS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13774,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13774.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20

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