dreadful state of exhaustion from the ravages of my disease, and many a time I felt dizzy and faint through walking a few yards, my aching limbs giving way beneath me. My bowels were very irregular, being constipated for two or three days, and then a violent attack of diarrhoea came on, and took the last spark of vitality out of my feeble frame. I could lie down on the broad of my back all day, and yet feel tired. Rest was a lost blessing, for I could not get any day or night. After tossing and turning about for hours, I sometimes felf into a heavy doze, which lasted a couple of hours usually. Then I awoke suddenly from some hideous dream, which had been running through my brain all the time, feeling myself in a great state of nervous excitement, and covered with perspiration. I dreaded the thought of falling asleep again, for fear of a recurrence of the ugly dream, and used to long for day light to appear, when I arose and went through the hours of torture and misery like one half dead. My eyes felt swol len, and my throat was often so sore that I could not swallow. The least noise or exertion made my nerves tremble in every limb. Another evi dence of nervousness being a strange fancy that something unwelcome was going to happen. I used to give little jumps in my sleep, so I have been told, as though I was flinching from a blow. People had to speak loudly to make me hear them. It looked as though I was losing my hearing altogether, so deaf did I become."

"You had quite a number of ail ments." '

" Yes; I had, and I was quite played out. But on top of my liver troubles I had an exciutiating attack of rheuma tism. When this came on I was com pletely paralysed. Imagine a wrecked constitution under such circumstances! I have seen strong people unable to move through rheumatism alone, so you can guess that I was absolutely use less. This additional affliction knocked me out entirely, and I became despon dent and melancholy." "Why so ? Did you take any medi cine?"

"What a question to ask. 