Merely laying the hand on the bed caused her to shrink, and she could not bear the lightest touch of the fingers on her spine or any part near it.

She lay in a darkened room at the back of the house, to be away from the noise of the streets, which distressed her much.

She was a naturally fine and highly-cultivated woman, greatly emaciated, with a dusky, sallow complexion, and dark rims round her eyes.

I could find no evidence of organic disease of any kind.

Whatever lesion of the uterine organs had previously existed had disappeared, and I therefore paid no attention to them.