"April 21 st.—I kept her asleep an hour and a quarter in the morning and the same in the evening. She said[5] her throat looked parched and feverish; at her request I ate some black currant paste, which she said moistened it.... She said, 'Before you ate, my stomach was contracted and had a queer-looking sort of moisture in it; now the stomach is its full size and does not look shrunk, and part of the moisture is gone.'
"I. 'But you could not get nourishment so?' "A. 'Yes: I could get all my system wants.'
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"April 26th.—In the evening I kept her asleep one hour, and took tea for her.
"April 27th.—... I ate dinner and she felt much stronger.
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"I kept her asleep two hours and a quarter in the morning and one hour in the evening, eating for her as usual."
[2] This I find to be the case.—R. H.