And pray, for Heaven's sake, guard her against all that may set her thinking on such subjects.

Above all, guard her against concentring attention on any malady that your fears erroneously ascribe to her.

It is amongst the phenomena of our organization that you cannot closely rivet your consciousness on any part of the frame, however healthy, but it will soon begin to exhibit morbid sensibility.

Try to fix all your attention on your little finger for half an hour, and before the half hour is over the little finger will be uneasy, probably even painful.

How serious, then, is the danger to a young girl, at the age in which imagination is most active, most intense, if you force upon her a belief that she is in danger of a mortal disease! It is a peculiarity of youth to brood over the thought of early death much more resignedly, much more complacently, than we do in maturer years.