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VI took up my residence at Stock¬ 
holm. Every body laughed at my bot¬ 
any. No one could tell how many 
restless nights and toilsome hours I had 
bestowed on it; but every corner re¬ 
sounded With the humiliating lesson I 
had received from this Siegesbeck. I 
began to set up for a practitioner; but 
my success was very slow. They 
would not even employ me in a servant’s 
cure. But in a short time adversity 
ceased to persecute ; and,. alter many 
clouded days, the lucid sun broke 
through my obscurity. I rose—was cal¬ 
led to the great : every thing turned 
out prosperous. No patient could be 
cured without me: from four in the 
morning tiH late at night I visited the 
sick, spent nights with them, and earn¬ 
ed money. ‘Alas ? said I, ‘^sculapiu*: 
affords all that is good ; but Flora 
yields only Siegeshecks.’ 
