If it hadn't been for the unhappy scenes of the last few days, with their painfully exciting consummation, I think she would have thrown off, wholly, any lurking tendency to disease." I turned my face partly aside, so that its expression could not be seen.
The facts stated, and the symptoms as now presented, left me in little doubt as to the nature of the malady against which I had to contend.
Even while her mother talked, my patient fell away into the stupor from which I had aroused her.
My treatment of the case coincided with the practice of men eminent in the school of medicine to which I then belonged.

I am not a disciple of that school now, having found a system of exacter science, and one compassing more certain results with smaller risk and less waste of physical energy.
In order to remove the uneasiness of which my patient complained, I gave an emetic.

Its action was salutary, causing a determination towards the skin, and opening the pores, as well as relieving the oppression from which she suffered.
"How is your head now ?" I asked, after she had been quiet for some minutes.
"Better.

I feel scarcely any pain." "So far, all is right," said I, cheerfully.
The mother looked at me with an anxious face.

I arose, and we retired from the room together.