
Han grows stronger daily:
relishes her food, and consumes as much as she used when well: Yet she has very
bad spells, which
she rather encourages: This however is constitutional, and for which, her good
old deceased
friend, Dr. S. P. Thayer, pronounced, irremedial irremediable
, by
medicine—Mr
Heyde, he used to say, We know of no medicine that can cure it: still he always
sympathised her, kindly, tenderly, and declared her to be, physicaly a perfect
woman.
She has omitted taking bromide, now, for 8 nights. If she could be persuade to desisted from rubbing a most pernicious coloring ointment, into her scalp, with an old tooth brush, her improvement would be greater. She denied the practice, but I have observed, from behind her chair, a complete scab allmost or the blood starting from the irritation:
Christ, O! Christ! It makes me religious, and discouraged with women. Why gray hair is fashionable: and then cork screw curls, drawn over her forehead to cover wrinkles.
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