So far as your daughter is concerned, I should think, from the very slight opportunity I have had of forming an opinion in regard to her, that she is not readily susceptible of morbific intrusions.

Under an unusual exposure to exciting causes, the balance of health has been overcome.
If my presumption is correct, we have the steady effort of nature, in co-operation with remedial agencies, working towards a cure." "Do you think the attack light, or severe ?" the mother asked, speaking more calmly.
"Neither light nor severe; but of a character, judging from the first impression made upon it, entirely controllable by medicines." This opinion gave her confidence.

As I had spoken without any apparent concealment, she evidently believed the case to stand exactly as I had stated it.

After leaving medicine to be taken, every two hours, for the first part of the night, I went away.
In the morning, I found my patient in that comatose state, the usual attendant upon typhoid fever.

She aroused herself on my entrance, and answered all questions clearly.