SD379. John Carden to Edward Moulton-Barrett (father)
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 324–325.
Worcester
May 8 1821
Dear Sir
Your clear detail of the symptoms of the disorder still affecting your daughters, though considerably mitigated, induces me to entertain the same opinion of the nature & treatment of the malady as I form’d on witnessing it for the first time. The only variation I am inclined to suggest in the medicine, is to make the Bark draught a little stronger with Bark & add to each dose half a teaspoonful, a little more to the eldest & rather less to the youngest, of the volatile Tincture of Valerian. The cold shower bath for Miss B. I entirely approve of. The system of exercise in the open air must be pursued as much as possible & if the rides could be varied the advantage wd be greater. In this way I hope & expect you will see a progressive amendment in their complaints, & that in a few weeks I shall have the pleasure of hearing of their being free from this harrassing malady. Should it prove however more tedious than I anticipate, an entire change of air would be desirable, & the choice of place, if dry, would be less material than the change itself. Before I conclude I would suggest the trial of a tight flannel roller around the abdomen by day only. With cordial good wishes to Mrs Barrett & your young people I remain
My dear Sir
yrs faithfully
J Carden
Address, on integral page: Barrett Esqre. / Hope End / Ledbury.
Publication: B-GB, pp. 342–343.
Manuscript: Pierpont Morgan Library.
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