As the green summer comes on you must be the better surely; if you can bear to lie out under the trees, the general health will rally and the local injury correct itself.

You must have a strong, energetic vitality; and, after all, spinal disorders do not usually attack life, though they disable and overthrow.

The pain you endure is the terrible thing.

Has a local application of chloroform been ever tried?
I catch at straws, perhaps, with my unlearned hands, but it's the instinct of affection.

While you suffer, my dear friend, the world is applauding you.