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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    left alone, to hear the rustle of the trees, the music of the burn, and lie vacant, as ugly and stupid as I like. ... I am doing nothing; witnessing nothing. My stupidity is great. . . . They say I am growing better, looking better.” “ With talk and locomotion, the days pass cheerily.” (42.) Returned to Chelsea, he attended “ a party ” and returned about one in the morning, “ with a headache that served me for more than a day after, . . . sick and nervous.” He “did nothing all winter.” (43.) There is a shivering precipitancy in me, which makes emotion of any kind a thing to be shunned. “ It is my nerves, my nerves. . . . Such a nervous system as I have. . . . Thomas feeling in his breast for comfort and finding bilious fever. . . . All palpitating, fluttered with sleeplessness and drug-taking, etc. . . . Weary and worn with dull blockheadism, chagrin (next to no sleep the night before).” (43.) “Nothing keeping him in health so much as riding.” (43.) “ Dyspepsia working continually. . . . Dispirited, in miser¬ able health. . . . Ride daily. . . . Swift riding and solitude. . . . For two hours every day I have almost an immunity from pain. . . . Health perceptibly improved. I have distinctly less pain in all hours.” (44.) “ Going into society ” was “ at the cost of a shattered set of nerves and head set whirling for the next 48 hours.” (45.) “ I pass my days under the abominable presence of physical misery—a man foiled. I mean to ride diligently for three com¬ plete months, try faithfully whether in that way my insup¬ portable burden and imprisonment cannot be alleviated into at least the old degree of endurability.” (45.) “ I am sick and very miserable. I have kept riding for the last two months. My health seems hardly to improve. I have been throwing my lectures upon paper. ... If I were a little healthier,—ah, me! all around would be well.” (45.) “ A head full of air; you know that wretched physical feel¬ ing; I had been concerned with drugs, had awakened at five, etc. It is absolute martyrdom.” (45.)
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