Today in History – 14 November 1811
I Blyster’d for the Cough McRea came to my bed, & asked how I did, I told him it made no matter to him how I was, not to bother me, that I would be soon well, from the effects of the Blyster & repeated I did not think he was a Gentleman
- Journal of the Rev. Charles Bourke.
(reference: pages 17849 of the Selkirk Papers, M187, Manitoba Archives)
Tags: illness & disease, Mr. McRae, Rev. Charles Bourke, Rev. Thomas Bourke's Journal, York Factory
