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I consider myself, of course, as assuming the payment of
those sent to Dr Baykin, but a letter of his rec'd about
two weeks since mentions that he will have to return
some Copies: — so soon however as I can ascertain how
many are distributed by him (and I will write to him by
tomorrows mail) the amt shall be remitted you. I did
not recollect until this moment (not having made an en=
=try of it) that according to your request I sent a Copy
of each No in my hands to Mr Willm Green.

Of the following Nos will you please to send me only
30 copies, which will be amply sufficient for ths place
and Milledgeville. Are these any beyond the 5th out? if
so be so good as to direct them to be sent.

If you have a spare specimen, however inconsiderable
of the Alisma tennifotia, can I take the liberty of begging
it? — I have been called on by the Med: Gentlemen of this
place to point out the plant to them as it has been
recommended by very various and in my opinion equally
insufficient authority, as a remedy for Hydrophobia, and
I am willing to gratify them but unable to find it
by its leaves & among the dead vegetable matter that
fill our ditches at this season of the year. I am very
sceptical of its virtues in this disease, and think it more
than folly for men who have acquired professional reputation in the

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regular pursuit of science and phylosophy, to hope to
blunder upon a remedy, like an empiric, in this formid
=able malady, when physiological and every other mode
of enquiry have hitherto failed to supply us with facts
shewing how the animal economy is deranged by canine
virus. — I equally doubt the virtues of the Alisma
as entitled y it to the rank of an officinal.

Any attention that it will be convenient to shew
my very particular friend Dr Edward Brux, the bearer
of this; will lay me under obligations. — He is on a visit
to the West Indian Islands. —

With great Regard I Re[?]
Dr Sir Yrs etc etc
Thos J. Wray.