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myself to the kitchen fire. The chill increased shaking the whole system, the hands got cold | myself to the kitchen fire. The chill increased shaking the whole system, the hands got cold * the finger nails blue & the tip of the nose cold. | ||
I went to bed heaps of blankets being heaped upon me the shivering continued for half an hour & then fever followed, & during the night profuse perspiration. I was now a victim to chills & fever | I went to bed heaps of blankets being heaped upon me. the shivering continued for half an hour & then fever followed, & during the night profuse perspiration. I was now a victim to chills & fever or Intermittent. I took a dose of Quinine the following Morning & thought it prudent to make the best of my way to ___ which place I had made my headquarters, for there I could obtain Medical assistance & be with my friends. The day was fortunately cloudy, but sultry; riding on until Noon I put up at a small farm, the property of a Methodist parson, who united in his person the other functions of Lawyer, Judge or Magistrate & farmer. He 'was down' with fever & his Doctor had put him into such a state of salivation that the room in which he lay was perfectly pestiferous. I threw myself down on an apology for a bed | ||
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[rippped at top] 52 F myself to the kitchen fire. The chill increased shaking the whole system, the hands got cold * the finger nails blue & the tip of the nose cold.
I went to bed heaps of blankets being heaped upon me. the shivering continued for half an hour & then fever followed, & during the night profuse perspiration. I was now a victim to chills & fever or Intermittent. I took a dose of Quinine the following Morning & thought it prudent to make the best of my way to ___ which place I had made my headquarters, for there I could obtain Medical assistance & be with my friends. The day was fortunately cloudy, but sultry; riding on until Noon I put up at a small farm, the property of a Methodist parson, who united in his person the other functions of Lawyer, Judge or Magistrate & farmer. He 'was down' with fever & his Doctor had put him into such a state of salivation that the room in which he lay was perfectly pestiferous. I threw myself down on an apology for a bed
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