I have seen an hysterical, anaemic girl kill in this way three generations of nurses.

If you tell the patient she is basely selfish, she is probably amazed, and wonders at your cruelty.

To cure such a case you must morally alter as well as physically amend, and nothing less will answer.

The first step needful is to break up the companionship, and to substitute the firm kindness of a well-trained hired nurse.[12] Another form of evil to be encountered in these cases is less easy to deal with.

Such an invalid has by unhappy chance to live with some near relative whose temperament is also nervous and who is impatient or irritable.