furlough returned to my regiment a captain. On the 19th of September, 1863, occurred the battle of...
2011-12-06
patient gets well while you are electrifying him. Whether or not the electricity cured him is a th...
smallpox hospital.'' Upon my word, I was astonished at the little woman's indignation. She said ju...
and caustic comment. He never said a word in defense; he just kept on wearing the diamond. One day...
As I went out Mr. Poynter remarked: ``You will clear some four hundred easy. Write to the professo...
that audience, for they responded so keenly and with such heartfelt pleasure throughout the entire ...
and escape, leaving my books to pay as they might my arrears of rent. Looking out of the window, h...
audience in Westfield, Massachusetts, in 1862. What a foolish little school-boy speech it must hav...
on the counter; it was called ``Jahr's Manual.'' Opening at page 310, vol. i, I lit upon ``Lachesi...
The Autobiography of a Quack S. Weir Mitchell, MD, LLD THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A QUACK AND THE CASE...
As he was quite uneducated, he determined that I should not be. He had saved enough to send me to ...
not made public, so that I had absolutely nothing to stimulate my ambition. I am told that it is a...
Nobody told me anything different. One day we were making a drive in an exceedingly broken country....
2011-12-05
without looking up, "Sit down." The little man took it calmly, deposited himself in a chair and hi...
buy that with ten thou'--aye, or an hundred times ten thou'? No, no, Harry, that fortune would cost...