From Francis Darwin [1–15 March 1873]1
Dear Father
I have sent off the Vichy water, by a piece of inspiration I remembered to have seen Vichy written on a top bill in some docketted ones of G’s2 & found out that way— I see in another part my book says the dose of Fowler’s Soln is [scorpio] 2 to 8 and occasionally 10—3 Moore prescribed some colchicum for Arthur Parslow’s gout4 will you tell him not to go on with it if it seems not to suit him & only to go on for 3 or 4 days anyhow— Moore said he had better go on with the Iodine alone if the colchicum didnt suit— I hope poor old mother is better—5
Yours affec | F Darwin
Shall I be wanted at home next Sunday, if not I go to Pryor’s6
Footnotes
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Has sent Vichy water, discusses prescription. Tell Arthur Parslow not to continue on colchicum for gout if doesn’t suit him. May go to Pryor’s on Sunday.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8714F
- From
- Francis Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Source of text
- DAR 274.1: 10
- Physical description
- ALS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8714F,” accessed on 10 October 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8714F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
