Fat and blood: and how to make them.

  • Mitchell, Silas Weir.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Fat and blood: and how to make them. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    treatment, became so keen that, between three good meals every day, she drank several goblets of milk and of beef-tea. At the outset I had stipulated for six weeks of this treatment, and it was with reluc- tance that my patient yielded to my wish. But when the time was up she had become so impressed with the wonderful benefits she had received and was receiving, that she begged to have the treatment continued for two weeks more. At the end of that time she had gained at least thirty pounds in weight, and had lost every pain and ache. Her night-ter- rors, which I forgot to mention as one of her dis- tressing symptoms, had wholly disappeared, and she could sleep from nine to ten hours at a stretch. I now sent her into the country, where she is continu- ing to mend, and is astonishing her friends by her scrambles up and down the steep hills. Such were the salient features of this case, and I can assure you that I was as much impressed by the happy results of the treatment as were a host of auxiijus and doubting friends. Very faithfully yours, Wm. Goodell. Miss C, an interesting woman, set. 26, at the age of 20 passed through a grave trial in the shape of