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"I made the patient swallow, with great difficulty, and after

many efforts, the dose that I desired to give. As I intended to

repeat it after a while, and as it was necessary to watch its

influence, I then sat down by the side of the bed. There was a

timid and suppressed woman in attendance (wife of the man

down-stairs), who had retreated into a corner. The house was damp

and decayed, indifferently furnished--evidently, recently

occupied and temporarily used. Some thick old hangings had been

nailed up before the windows, to deaden the sound of the shrieks.

They continued to be uttered in their regular succession, with

the cry, 'My husband, my father, and my brother!' the counting up

to twelve, and 'Hush!' The frenzy was so violent, that I had not

unfastened the bandages restraining the arms; but, I had looked

to them, to see that they were not painful.