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Fat and Blood

CHAPTER VIII
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The left arm and both legs are paralyzed, and devoid of sensation.

She takes hardly any food, and is terribly emaciated.

She is naturally a clever woman, highly educated, but, of late, her memory and intellectual powers are said to be failing.' "It was determined that an attempt should be made to cure this case, and she was removed to the Home Hospital in Fitzroy Square.

She was so ill, and shrieked and groaned so much, on the first night of her admission, that next day I was told that no one in the house had been able to sleep, and I was informed that it would be impossible for her to remain.
Between 3 P.M.and 11.30 P.M.she had had nine violent convulsive paroxysms of an epileptiform character, lasting, on an average, five minutes.

At 11.30 she became absolutely unconscious, and remained so until 2.30 A.M., her attendant thinking she was dying.


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