LETTERS TO BROTHER JOHN, 



&c. &c. 



LETTER I. 



224 Blackfriars Road, 



20th Jan. 1836. 

 MY DEAR JOHN, 



IN reply to your Letter, wherein you complain 

 that you cannot gather any clear notion of the 

 nature of your malady, because you cannot attach, 

 in your own mind, any distinct idea to the terms 

 which your medical attendants seem obliged to use 

 in their endeavours to explain it to you ; I am 

 about to give you, in a series of Letters, a plain 

 and familiar description of the mechanism of your 

 internal man ; together with a brief history of 

 those internal motions and actions which constitute 

 animal life, and any disturbance in the harmony of 

 which constitutes disease. Thus, I think, I shall 

 easily enable you to surmount the difficulty of 

 which you complain. There is another benefit 



which I intend should result from these Letters, 

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