At the age of thirty she was much weakened by several successive miscarriages, and then drifted into confirmed ill health.

He wrote, on making an appointment, as follows: 'I will give you at once a short outline of her case.

We have been married thirty-four years, of which the last twenty have been spent by her in bed or on the sofa.

She is unable even to stand, and finds the pain in her back too great to admit of her sitting up.

She is utterly without strength, of an intensely nervous temperament, and suffers incessantly from neuralgia.