Letter to Dr. De Sauvages, professeur en Medecin, Montpellier, France. [Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages, Francois, 1706-1767, a doctor and botanist particularly known for his classification of illnesses by genera and species.]

Precis: Your letters of March 15 and April 12. Bernard de Jussieu; death of Joseph de Jussieu. My failure to obtain the post of Professor of Botany at Upsala on Rudbeck's death. This summer travelling to collect insects.

Advice on editing proposed Latin edition of your Traite des classes des maladies. Await your Pathologia, and De bombycis. Hales' Vegetable Statics. Entry for Sauvagea in the forthcoming edition of Genera plantarum; see similar plants in Surian's herbarium, Paris.

Causes and treatments of gonorrhea, intermittent fever (with a case history), elephantiasis, last winter's scurvy outbreak, dysentery.