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THE SUMMERS OF MY CONVALESCENCE.
While I spent the winters in my mother's house in industrious work and pleasant social life, the summers took me out of the city into the open air.

I always went first with my faithful nurse and companion to Wildbad; the remainder of the warm season I spent on the Elbe, sometimes with my mother, sometimes with my aunt.
I used the Wildbad springs in all seventeen times.

For two summers, aided by a servant, I descended from a wheel-chair into the warm water; in the third I could dispense with assistance; and from the fourth for several lustra I moved unchecked with a steady step.

After a long interval, owing to a severe relapse of the apparently conquered disease, I returned to them.
The Wurtemberg Wildbad is one of the oldest cures in Germany.