Volume 1

Biographic clinics / by George M. Gould.

  • George M. Gould
Date:
1903-
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Biographic clinics / by George M. Gould. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    totally absent from the letters written from Craigenputtock. The simple natural life, the wholesome air, the daily rides or drives, the poor food, . . . had restored completely the func¬ tions of a stomach never so far wrong as he had imagined. . . . Afterwards he was always impatient, moody, irritable, violent. These humors were in his nature, and he could no more be separated from them than his body could leap off its shadow. . . . He looked back to it as the happiest and whole- somest home that he had ever known. He could do fully twice as much work there, he said, as he could ever do afterwards in London.” (Froude.) “ I read dozens of pages and find at the end that I have not the slightest knowledge what they were about.” (39, in Lon¬ don.) “Mood tragical, gloomy, as of one forsaken.” {Ibid.) “ Bad health, too (at least singularly changed health), brings all manner of dispiritment.” {Ibid.) “Weary, dispirited, sick.” {Ibid.) “ All of us have tolerable health. ... I am diligent with the shower-bath; my pilgrimages to the museum and on other town errands keep me in walking enough.” {Ibid.) “ Bilious, too, in these smothering windless days.” {Ibid.) “ Broke down in the park; konnte nichts mehr, being sick and weak beyond measure.” {Ibid.) “ Many days of suffering, of darkness, of despondency. . . . Ill-health has much to do with it.” {Ibid.) “ His name was not seen on charity-lists, but he gave away every year, perhaps half what he received. (Froude.) “All the mornings he was at his desk; in the afternoons he took his solitary walks in Hyde Park, seeing the brilliant equipages, and the knights and dames of fashion prancing gaily along the Row.” {Ibid.) “ His impatience, his irritability, his singular melancholy, . . . were the effects of temperament first, and of a peculiarly sensitive organization; and secondly of absorption in his work,” etc. (Froude.)
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