On Jan. 15,1885, I called on a doctor who was attending my sister-in-law through the typhoid-fever, and talked with him concerning the sick one. Not feeling very well, I asked the doctor to note my temperature. He said, "Your temperature is 102⅓ You will be a sick man tomorrow." Sure enough, I was.
I was sick with the typhoid-fever fifty-four days, being unconscious most of the time. For three-and-one-half months after the fever I had an abscess on my right side, which was lanced May 14. I suffered terribly until a friend of mine made me acquainted with M. E. Tallman, in February, 1887. She relieved me of my suffering in twenty-four hours. She gave me a treatment that night, and then went to Jamestown, twenty miles distant, saying, "If you need me you can telegraph me at once." I did not see her for a week, but was feeling so well that I came down stairs and went out-of-doors with my sister's help. I went out every day through March. I have continued to gain steadily, and am now doing the work about my greenhouse.
