 Dr Joseph Horlock used the traditional European cures of the eighteenth century, by having Thistlewood "blooded", and then gave him 24 mercury pills and a bottle of balsam drops to take.The doctor also required Thistlewood to bathe his infected organ "a long time in new milk night and morning".His venereal disease did not deter him, and he took to rape another slave named Jenny, before returning to the infected Dido several times.