She has, moreover, an outward curvature of the spine.
There is not the slightest symptom of paralysis.

Fortunately, she does not touch morphia, or any narcotic or stimulant, beyond a glass or two of wine in the day.

That she has long been in a state of hysteria is the opinion of nearly all the many medical men who have seen her.' "Although the attempt to cure so aggravated a case as this was certainly a sufficiently severe test of the treatment, I determined to make the trial, and had the patient removed from her own home and isolated in lodgings.

I found her in bed, supported everywhere by many small pillows, and wasted more than, I think, I had ever seen any human being.
She really hardly had any covering to her bones, and looked somewhat like the picture of the living skeleton we are familiar with.

It may give some idea of her emaciation if I state that, though naturally not a small woman, her height being five feet five and a half inches, she weighed only 4 st.