
          inefficient that I have no patience 
in thinking of it. For some time 
I have had warnings of fever & ague 
& while on the visit, just mentioned, 
the thing itself came. As Tomtit says 
(supposing you to have read Dred) "I'se got a 
'sperience on dat ar." Just imagine 
every individual bone in your body cut into 
inch pieces, with a current of pain, each 
nastier than the other running through 
in different directions with a little concentration 
wherever the connection is broken 
& you have a fair notion of the 
ague. Then you have the fever & the 
two are like the Irishman's two roads, 
"when you have travelled half way on 
either you will wish you had taken 
the other." The whole leaves you feeling 
like a wrung out dish cloth with a 
bushel basket for a head. Excuse 
technicalities, if I were not writing 
to an M.D. I would try to popularize 
        