and is vastly improved and I have,no doubt permanently so. 
I am particularly pleased over your happy report concerning yourself, 
of which you will see that I have made good use. But what a pity that 
you should have had to immolate that leg again: It is too bad,yet 
from your letter I gather that the results of the fall are rapidly 
disappegring,and will not affect you as it would have done in the 
past. Indeed I doubt if you will ever again be as vulnerable on that 
much abused side as you formerly were. Recovery also will be much 
more prompt. I was especially amused over your ventures in the run- 
ning and jumping line: think how risky this would have seemed in the 
past Perhaps you will be interested in a case I am now treating here 
in the person of Ed.Mc Gill,the ex stage driver whom you doubtless 
remember. le has been down with chronic articular rheumatism for ten 
weeks having started in with rheumatic fever, I saw him first a week 
ago,he having run the gamut of the jiocal talent. He could scarcely 
walk and that only with much stiffness & pain: One knee,one ankle and 
one wristwere swollen and painful & every joint in his spine was sore, 
Te get up from a chair he had to Cunce forward half a dozen times, 
and to lie down upon the lounge in his cabin was an undertaking of 
much time & creaky joints. He had heard of my curing some patient in 
his neighborhood by some new method-and to use his own words -,"I dont 
know what it is,but if its like iSpiritualism-I believe in that!" 
I did undertake his case,though with some misgivings. Yet he is such 
a poor devil and was in such bad shape that I decided to try . 
One treatment by suggestion took away all his pain,he got up off the 
lounge with ease,walked about the floor without his cane,sat down in 
his chair and got up again immediately the first time in the usual 
