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Fat and Blood

CHAPTER IX
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GOODELL." * * * * * Miss C., an interesting woman, aet.

26, at the age of 20 passed through a grave trial in the shape of nursing her mother through a typhoid fever.
Soon after, a series of calamities deprived her of fortune, and she became, for support, a clerk, and did for two years eight hours' work daily.

Under these successive strains her naturally sturdy health gave way.

First came pain in the back, then growing paleness, loss of flesh, and unending sense of tire.

Her work, which was a necessity, was of course kept up, steadily at first, but was soon interfered with by increase of the menstrual flow, with unusual pain and persistent ovarian tenderness.


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