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if she would like to have me put her to sleep, and she said 

 gratefully "Oh if you could." I said I would try if her 

 mother and sister were willing for I did not know that she 

 would ever wake again. She appealed to them, and they said 

 they would rather she passed away in asleep than in such agony 

 as that of the morning. So I gently passed my hands to and 

 fro over her head, and in a few moments she was sleeping as 

 gently as a babe. 



I did not see her till the next morning, when I hardly 

 knew her for the brightness and even gaiety with which she 

 greeted me. I could not be with her that day, and at night 

 she was in as great distress as the day previous, but refused to 

 let me help her, saying that it could not be permanent, and she 

 would have to suffer just so after it all, and she would rather 

 die now than have this life prolonged any more. She passed 

 away next morning. 



For the past five years we have had in our home a young 

 lady now about thirty years of age, with a slightly built, ner- 

 vous, wiry frame, capable of great exertion and of tenacious 

 vitality. I have many times relieved her of ordinary colds, 

 and sore throats, and congested lungs, as she is susceptible to 

 lung trouble. The first time I had occasion to attempt to help 

 her in a serious case she had had a distressing cough for days, 

 and the doctor had feared pneumonia, and was attending her for 

 the trouble. She had kept us all awake for several nights by 

 her peculiar ringing cough which was repeated so frequently as 

 to prevent sleep for herself or anyone else. 



Refusing to stay in bed, she was sitting up, and when she 

 was not coughing, her breathing was harsh and difficult. Fin- 

 ally I said " I am going to try and stop that cough for you, for 

 I can't stand it any longer." She replied that she did not think 

 I could do her any good for the medicine had not, and she was 

 too sick for me to help. However she lay down on the lounge 

 and I placed my hands on her throat where she said the tickling 

 was located. Although her cough was nearly continuous be- 

 fore I touched her, she did not once try to cough after I put 

 my hand on the throat. 



For an hour I kept my hands quietly in position, and she 

 was then able to take a full long breath without a catch, and 

 did not cough again for days, until she caught another cold, 

 and that yielded promptly to the same treatment. All pain or 

 sense of congestion in the lungs disappeared at the time the 



