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    3 f 80 : HARRIOT k. HUNT,

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    lie tried Mistersmercurial medicinesandleeclies onhis _yottngffiend :-of Wo and twent , she submitted with , docile girlishpatience ,

    thoughy , , , all the intense agony and she could all the not remedies lie down broug but ht was no relief bolstered . Her up _siifferirigs in bed ,

    were , , pronounced and another to doctor Ibe disease being called of the in to heart a consultation . She was , her sent malad into y was the sent for the

    country doctor again , got , a and little was better attacked , came with back frightful ; got spasms worse . and , " Blistering

    and leeching were now declared to he the only hope , they were her thoroug voice hl ; y and tested relapse . " Her _iipon treatment relapse was strained certainl every y " heroic nerve / ' of She the two lost blisters

    poor nurses . At last the doctor satisfied himself that , leeching , and ical mercury eration could do nothing loving , Harriot and he then could proposed ' hardly a conceal painful sur her

    horror gop . " The next ; poor prescription was prussic acid , four drops three remed times a had day , shocked which frig her htened . " At her last , sister after forty as much -one weeks as the of previous sickness y

    and one hundred and six professional calls , my sister was aroused to more thought on the subject . We talked she it over together to the conclusion ; she

    obwas that tained the lier some question case me was dical . not How works understood often , and has finall . a similar But y what question came were ari we sen to in do fami ?——

    -liesand the severest trials followed the impossibility of an answer . " Then that The , it was next supposed symp different tom to that train be came whoop of remedies on ing was 1 coug a all terrible h useless , but coug it and was h ; ineffectual spasmodic " so severe . " .

    came a , At this time Harriot herself took a severe cold , accompanied by a cold cough I , and suffered Dr . Dixwell severely dosed in my her linibs with , : calomel I remember . _" Catching those pains another as

    thoug simp , le h a they malad were y required yesterday such ! I remember severe treatment also my . wonder I gave up that my so

    school for a weekand we were sick together . My sister had lost all confidence in medicine , . She reasoned and argued with the doctor : then she would tamel

    his tactics were to arouse her conscience , and y to and submit the clever annoyance to a ph fresh ysician of round the , Dr old . of Walker practitioner torturing radical , was prescri , then who called p for tions a . long in " indeed b A y time the very Harriot refused famil kind y ,

    to Hunt meet imp him lies ; but that he professional effected no etiquette improvement stood in ; the way , of any to marked in Boston despairing change ; a Dr desp of . and eration treatment Mrs . at Mott . three , At Eng last years lish , in of peop 1833 regular le , two ; and do " ctors quacks Harriot and " Hunt came doc- ,

    tors' billsset off' to see Mrs . Mottamidst all sorts of opposition from vyith , ' friends regulars , and , ' and acquaintance it did not . occur " But , to we us were that to weary die under and tired regular out

    practice way . " , Now and with we heartil medical y hope etiquette our , was readers better will which than not in suspect any other us of

    favoring quacks , or at least quack medicines , , are a degree-

    3 F 80 : Harriot K. Hunt,

    3 80 HARRIOT k . HUNT ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 380, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/20/