10th. Having consider’d the numerous instances of the good effects of Joyce’s Balsam and having been furnish’d with the recipe by my Grand-mother, I began to collect the ingredients, and in the course of the afternoon made above two pounds of it.—The preparation of this, according to my Grand-mother’s process, would have been a business of several days.—
   28th. I have been troubled with very disagreeable feelings to-day.—Can it be possible that the Moon has so great an influence on our bodies. I really have reason to confess its unaccountable operation, from observations on myself.
   April 16th. Sunday. I went to Church in the evening and heard a discourse from Mr. Moore; waited for him at the door and walk’d with him to Van Vleck’s.—There, encircled by a room full of company, Miss Ann Van Vleck gave me her hand, and we were united in the bonds of Wedlock.—A propitious hour to me, in which the most amiable of her sex, blooming with innocence and beauty, became mine.
   27th. I drank tea at Van Vleck’s with a room full of young ladies, and on such a trying  occasion I was obliged to make great exertions to behave easy.—I must say that I could face the yellow fever,

with all its horrors, with more composure than a strange company.
   29th. This afternoon I went with Mrs. A. to Greenwood’s and saw him fix an artificial tooth in her jaw.—His price was 3 dollars.
   May 28th. I had several things to attend to, &, among others, to draw a sketch of a ticket for the Hospital, from an idea of Dr. Mitchill’s—Appollo destroying the Python, which he supposes is an allegory of the power of the Sun in dissipating contagious matter.
   June 3d. This forenoon I found the difficulty of breathing return.—I was determined to try the effects of wine in this case, not from a fondness for that liquor, but from a conviction of its necessity.—I set off to go to the new Vauxhall, but, through a mistake, enter’d the house next to it and was serv’d with a glass of ice-cream instead of wine. I dispatch’d the cream, and, after viewing a Camera obscura, came away.—I took several glasses of wine at my Father’s without feeling any intoxication, but with some relief from my complaint.—As a supplement to these I went in the afternoon to the real Vauxhall, and drank two glasses of wine and water.—By means of this remedy I enjoy’d the luxury of breathing, but withal discover’d that it had brought