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Credit: Bronchitis and kindred diseases / by W.W. Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![low what I advised. He was encouraged to persevere, and finally his symptoms began to change, and then disappeared ; and in two months from his first consul- tation, he wrote me to say that he had steadily improved; pulse, permanently at sixty-five; expressing his obliga- tions, &c. This case shows strikingly the advantage of perseverance. A CLERGYMAN (844.) Wrote to me for advice in reference to a throat complaint. I prescribed, and had entirely for- gotten the circumstance, when the following letter was received:— I began to follow your directions on the 4th day of May, not quite three months ago, and have adhered to them strictly ever since. I am evidently a great deal better. I have lost no flesh ; although it is summer, my weight has not varied three pounds since I wrote to you ; it is now one hundred and forty-nine pounds. My tonsils are diminished, and give me no uneasiness, ex- cept in darn]) weather. From my throat, which is now rally perfectly comfortable, I am continually bring- ing up a pearly substance. Sometimes it is perfectly -. and like the pure white of an egg. But this is a At first, 1 could not talk five minutes in the family circle. My throat was constantly tickling and burning; so that a mustard plaster, which took all the skin off my neck in front, was a comfort; but now I can talk as much as I wish, read a page or so aloud, and am almost tempted to sing a little. On the 9th of March, a distinguished clergyman, young, and of great promise, made to me the following statement : Unusual circumstances compelled me to perform an immense amount of clerical labor, the work 2*](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2112565x_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
