[Fat and Blood by S. Weir Mitchell]@TWC D-Link bookFat and Blood CHAPTER IX 7/27
At the outset I had stipulated for six weeks of this treatment, and it was with reluctance that my patient yielded to my wish.
But when the time was up she had become so impressed with the wonderful benefits she had received and was receiving, that she begged to have the treatment continued for two weeks more.
At the end of that time she had gained at least thirty pounds in weight, and had lost every pain and ache.
Her night-terrors, which I forgot to mention as one of her distressing symptoms, had wholly disappeared, and she could sleep from nine to ten hours at a stretch.
I now sent her into the country, where she is continuing to mend, and is astonishing her friends by her scrambles up and down the steep hills. "Such were the salient features of this case; and I can assure you that I was as much impressed by the happy results of the treatment as were a host of anxious and doubting friends. "Very faithfully yours, "WM.
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