CHAPTER VI.

At Home.--Nothing but a Skeleton.--A good Imitation of Lazarus.--A digression upon the Subject of Sleeplessness.--A well-intended Fraud on a Hospital Nurse.--Return of Sleep.--Improvement in Health.--Stomach the only Difficulty.--A Year passes.--Stomach Worse.--Constant Headache.--Much Debilitated.--Awful Suffering.--Bodily Agony Debilitates the Mind.--Sufferings Intolerable.--Physicians and Remedies Tried without Avail.--Forlorn Hope and Last Resort.--Better.--Doubts as to Treatment.--Suspicions Confirmed.--Uncomplimentary Remarks concerning an M. D.--Uncomfortable Discoveries and Reflections 50