If I could produce a reaction, or remove some obstruction, and give nature a chance, I did not think it wise to keep on with drugs, which, from their general poisonous qualities, make even well people sick--regarding the struggle of life with disease as hazardous enough, without increasing the risk by adding a new cause of disturbance, unless the need of its presence were unmistakably indicated.
The course of this fever is always slow and exhausting.

My patient sunk steadily, day by day, while I continued to watch the case with more than common anxiety.

At the end of a week, she was feeble as an infant, and lay, for the most part, in a state of coma.

I visited her two or three times every day, and had the thought of her almost constantly in my mind.

Her mother, nerved for the occasion, was calm, patient, and untiring.