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Fat and Blood

CHAPTER X
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Ordered rest, massage, electricity, and full doses of iodide in skimmed milk.

In this way he was able to take without distress or indigestion amounts as large as four hundred and forty grains a day.
When education in balance, etc., was begun he could not walk without aid, or more than a few steps in any way.

In three months from the time he went to bed he walked out-of-doors alone with no stick, and in five months went back to work.

The bladder did not improve much until after regular washing out and intravesical galvanism were used, with full doses of strychnia.

He was soon able to empty the organ twice a day, and since leaving the hospital writes that it gives him very little annoyance, though as a measure of precaution he uses a catheter once daily.


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