Note 36 — Chapter IX

Watchful of the convalescence as experience had taught us it is necessary to be after so severe an attack, still he was allowed to put himself too forward. When to all appearance recovered, though still weak, he undertook a journey of fifty miles, that he might the more completely re-establish his health in the country. He had not arrived at his journey’s end an hour before he relapsed. He was again bled, and the cold dash was applied a second time with success. From the commencement to the termination of the disease, 120 pounds of blood were abstracted in this case.