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thing more miserable than this total pros- 

 tration of mind and body, and should be 

 sorry to see my worst enemy reduced to 

 such a state of weakness. My recovery 

 was most tardy, and I lay for a long time 

 between life and death, one day slightly 

 better and perhaps the next a little worse : 



my case sadly puzzled my kind medical 







friends, and I believe they attributed my 

 slow amendment to the starvation, anxiety 

 and fatigue I had undergone, and nothing 

 now but the remains of my once excellent 

 constitution gave hope of a permanent 

 recovery. 



