three good meals every day, she drank several goblets of milk and of beef-tea.  At the outset I had stipulated for six weeks of this treatment, and it was with reluctance that my patient yielded to my wish.  But when the time was up she had become so impressed with the wonderful benefits she had received and was receiving, that she begged to have the treatment continued for two weeks more.  At the end of that time she had gained at least thirty pounds in weight, and had lost every pain and ache.  Her night-terrors, which I forgot to mention as one of her distressing symptoms, had wholly disappeared, and she could sleep from nine to ten hours at a stretch.  I now sent her into the country, where she is continuing to mend, and is astonishing her friends by her scrambles up and down the steep hills.

“Such were the salient features of this case; and I can assure you that I was as much impressed by the happy results of the treatment as were a host of anxious and doubting friends.

“Very faithfully yours,
“WM. GOODELL.”

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Miss C., an interesting woman, aet. 26, at the age of 20 passed through a grave trial in the shape of nursing her mother through a typhoid fever.  Soon after, a series of calamities deprived her of fortune, and she became, for support, a clerk, and did for two years eight hours’ work daily.  Under these successive strains her naturally sturdy health gave way.  First came pain in the back, then growing paleness, loss of flesh, and unending sense of tire.  Her work, which was a necessity, was of course kept up, steadily at first, but was soon interfered with by increase of the menstrual flow, with unusual pain and persistent ovarian tenderness.  Very soon she began to drop her work for a day at a time.  Then came an increasing asthenopia, with evening headaches, until her temper changed and became capricious and irritable.  When I saw her, she had been forced to abandon all labor, and had been treated by an accomplished gynaecologist, and was said to be cured of a prolapsus uteri and of extensive ulceration, despite which relief she gained nothing in vigor and endurance and got back neither color nor flesh.

She went to bed December 10, and rose for the first time February 4, having gained twenty-nine pounds.  She went to bed pale, and got up actually ruddy.  In a month she returned to her work again, and has remained ever since in health which enables her, as she writes me, “to enjoy work, and to do with myself what I like.”

Miss L., aet. 26, came to me with the following history.  At the age of 20 she had a fall, and began in a week or two to have an irritable spine.  Then, after a few months, a physician advised rest, to which she took only too kindly, and in a year from the time of her accident she was rarely out of bed.  Surrounded by highly sympathetic relatives, to whom chronic illness was somewhat novel, she speedily developed, with their