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This opinion gave her confidence. As I had spoken without any
apparent concealment, she evidently believed the case to stand
exactly as I had stated it. After leaving medicine to be taken,
every two hours, for the first part of the night, I went away.
In the morning, I found my patient in that comatose state, the usual
attendant upon typhoid fever. She aroused herself on my entrance,
and answered all questions clearly. She had no pain in the head, nor
any distressing symptoms. Her skin was soft and moist. All things
looked favorable. I gave, now, only gentle diaphoretics, and let the
case progress, watching it with the closest attention. In this, I
followed my usual course of treatment as to giving medicines. If I
could produce a reaction, or remove some obstruction, and give
nature a chance, I did not think it wise to keep on with drugs,
which, from their general poisonous qualities, make even well people
sick--regarding the struggle of life with disease as hazardous
enough, without increasing the risk by adding a new cause of
disturbance, unless the need of its presence were unmistakably
indicated.
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