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In the winter of 188--, I was afflicted by a series of nervous ail these was a protracted and terrible insomnia, accompanied by the utmost depression of spirits and anxiety of loo up by slow degrees to such a high tension of physical andof friendly voices had no other effect upon me than to jar and irritate Work was impossible; music, ht; and even a short walk in the open air brought with it such lassitude and exhaustion, that I soon grew to dislike the very thought ofout of doors

In such a condition of health, medical aid became necessary; and a skilful and areat repute in nervous ailht success He was not to blame, poor man, for his failure to effect a cure He had only one way of treatment, and he applied it to all his patients with more or less happy results Some died, some recovered; it was a lottery on which my medical friend staked his reputation, and won The patients who died were never heard ofthe praises of their physician everywhere, and sent hiifts of silver plate and haratitude His popularity was very great; his skill considered ood arose, I ine, out of some defect or hidden obstinacy in my constitution, which was to him a new experience, and for which he was unprepared Poor Dr R----!

How many bottles of your tastily prepared and expensive medicines have I not sed, in blind confidence and blinder ignorance of the offences I thus coainst all the principles of that Nature within les to recover its own proper balance and effect its own cure; but which, if subjected to the experith in the unnatural contest and sinks exhausted, perhaps never to rise with actual vigour again Baffled in his attempts to remedy my ailments, Dr, R----at last resorted to the usual plan adopted by all physicians when their e of air and scene, and urged s of a dreary winter, for the gaiety and sunshine and roses of the Riviera