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Fat and Blood

CHAPTER VIII
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Her pulse at first was 90 to 100 in the morning, and at night 80 to 95, her temperature being always a half degree to a degree below the normal.

At the third week the latter was as is usual in health, and the pulse had fallen to 80 in the morning, and 80 to 90 at night.
After two weeks I gave her the lactate of iron every three hours in full doses.

In the fourth week additions were made to her diet-list, and Swedish movements were added to the massage, which was applied but once a day; and during the fifth week she began to sit up and move about.

At the seventh week her pulse was 70 to 80, her temperature natural, and her blood-globules much increased in number.

Her weight had now fallen to one hundred and forty-five pounds, and her appearance had decidedly improved.


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