As to the two sets of cases just sketched, no one need hesitate; the one must walk, the other should not until we have bettered her nutritive state.

She may be able to drag herself about, but no good will be done by making her do so.

But between these two classes, and allied by certain symptoms to both, lie the larger number of such cases, giving us every kind of real and imagined symptom, and dreadfully well fitted to puzzle the most competent physician.

As a rule, no harm is done by rest, even in such people as give us doubts about whether it is or is not well for them to exert themselves.

There are plenty of these women who are just well enough to make it likely that if they had motive enough for exertion to cause them to forget themselves they would find it useful.