If you will put him into his dressing-gown we will walk him up and down the room for a while." "But is that safe ?" Mr.Weiss asked anxiously.
"Quite safe," I answered.

"I will watch his pulse carefully.

The danger is in the possibility, or rather certainty, of a relapse if he is not kept moving." With obvious unwillingness and disapproval, Mr.Weiss produced a dressing-gown and together we invested the patient in it.

Then we dragged him, very limp, but not entirely unresisting, out of bed and stood him on his feet.

He opened his eyes and blinked owlishly first at one and then at the other of us, and mumbled a few unintelligible words of protest; regardless of which, we thrust his feet into slippers and endeavoured to make him walk.