Charcot, I am sure, would have said that my wife was hysterical, and of me he would have said that I was an abnormal being, and he would have wanted to treat me.

But in us there was nothing requiring treatment.

All this mental malady was the simple result of the fact that we were living immorally.

Thanks to this immoral life, we suffered, and, to stifle our sufferings, we tried abnormal means, which the doctors call the 'symptoms' of a mental malady,--hysteria.
"There was no occasion in all this to apply for treatment to Charcot or to anybody else.

Neither suggestion nor bromide would have been effective in working our cure.