SECOND EDITION.
LONDON:
EDWARD MOXON, DOVER-STREET.
MDCCCXLIV.

LONDON:
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
[To ——][vii]
[The Transient and the Permanent in the Sick-Room][1]
[Sympathy to the Invalid][11]
[Nature to the Invalid][43]
[Life to the Invalid][64]
[Death to the Invalid][104]
[Temper][126]
[Becoming Inured][146]
[Power of Ideas in the Sick-Room][155]
[Some Perils and Pains of Invalidism][176]
[Some Gains and Sweets of Invalidism][197]

TO——

“Passion I see is catching; for mine eyes,
Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine,
Began to water.”
Shakspere.

“When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes;
Who alone suffers suffers most i’ the mind,
Leaving free things and happy shows behind.
But then the mind much sufferance doth o’erskip,
When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.”
Shakspere.