Skated an hour; fell twenty times, and find the advantage of a hard head and
Ma better—dined with us at table, and is still sitting up and free from pain.
Your affectionate papa,
A. BURR.
TO MRS. BURR.
Philadelphia, 24th December, 1793.
Since being at this place I have had several conversations with Dr. Rush respecting your distressing illness, and I have reason to believe that he has given the subject some reflection. He has this evening called on me, and given me as his advice that you should take hemlock. He says that, in the way in which it is usually prepared, you should commence with a dose of one tenth of a grain, and increase as you may find you can bear it; that it has the narcotic powers of opium, superadded to other qualities. When the dose is too great, it may be discovered by a vertigo or giddiness; and that he has known it to work wonderful cures. I was the more pleased with this advice, as I had not told him that you had been in the use of this medicine; the concurrence of his opinion gives me great faith in it. God grant that it may restore your health, and to your affectionate
A. BURR.
TO HIS DAUGHTER THEODOSIA.
Philadelphia, 25th December, 1793.