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her exactly as she is, the most active,friendly, warmhearted Being in existence,& therefore must give a good impreſsion."He read. –"My dear Tom, We were allmuch greivedatby your accident, & if you had not described yourself as falleninto such very good hands, I shd .should have been with you at all hazards the dayafter the recpt .receipt of your Letter, thoughit found me hardly able to crawl frommytheBed to the Sofasuffering under a more severe attack than usual of my oldgreivance, SpasmodicBile. —& hardly able to crawl from my Bed to the Sofa. But howwere you treated? — Send me more Particu::lars in your next. — If indeed a simpleSprain, as you denominate it, nothingwd .would have been so judicious as Friction,Friction by the hand alone, supposingit could be applied instantly. — Twoyears ago I happened to be calling on Mrs -Sheldon when her Coachman sprainedhis foot as he was cleaning the Carriage& cd .could hardly limp into the House  butby the immediate useapplication of Frictionalone, steadilywell persevered in, (& I rubbedhis Ancle with my own hand for six4Hours without Intermiſsion) — he waswell in three days. — Many Thanks my

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