We have herbs and drugs and all those things which the doctors think to be of use; and thou shalt have a supply of all such anon--if indeed thy mother be not already amply provided.

But I cannot bear for thee to be straitly shut up; I must be able to see how it goes with thee.

And should it be that thou wert thyself a victim, thou shalt not lack the best nursing that all London can give." She looked up at him with fearless eyes.
"Do men ever recover when once attacked by the plague ?" "Yes, many do--though nothing like the number who die.

Amongst our nurses and bearers of the dead are numbers who have had the distemper and have survived it.

They go by the name of the 'safe people.' Yet some have been known to take it again, though I think these cases are rare." "If Frederick takes it, will he be like to live ?" asked Gertrude; and Reuben was silent.
Both knew that the unhappy young man had long been given to drunkenness and debauchery, and that his constitution was undermined by his excesses.