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Fat and Blood

CHAPTER IX
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I could find nothing beyond soreness on deep pressure, and she was anything but hysterical or emotional.
Two months' rest with the usual treatment brought her weight up to one hundred and thirty-eight pounds, and she has been able ever since to do her usual work, and to walk when and where and as far as she wished.
Several years ago I treated with some reluctance a lady who had extensive bronchitis and a slight albuminuria.

This woman was a mere skeleton, with every function out of order.

I undertook her case with the utmost distrust, but I had the pleasure to find her fattening and reddening like others.

Her cough left her, the albumen disappeared, and she became well enough to walk and drive; when a sudden congestion of the kidneys destroyed her in forty-eight hours.
The following case of extreme anaemia, with striking resemblance to the pernicious type in some of its features, is especially interesting for the ease and rapidity of improvement under rest and massage without electricity or excessive amounts of food.
Mrs.T., aet.

40, the mother of several children, had been unwell for years, and almost totally incapacitated for exertion for two years before admission, in January, 1894.


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