These peculiarities come out in the following letter of Diana Parker to
her brother:--
'MY DEAR TOM,--We were much grieved at your accident, and if you had
not described yourself as having fallen into such very good hands, I
should have been with you at all hazards the day after receipt of your
letter, though it found me suffering under a more severe attack than
usual of my old grievance, spasmodic bile, and hardly able to crawl
from my bed to the sofa. But how were you treated? Send me more
particulars in your next. If indeed a simple sprain, as you
denominate it, nothing would have been so judicious as
friction--friction by the hand alone, supposing it could be applied
_immediately_. Two years ago I happened to be calling on Mrs.
Sheldon, when her coachman sprained his foot, as he was cleaning the
carriage, and could hardly limp into the house; but by the immediate
use of friction alone, steadily persevered in (I rubbed his ancle with
my own hands for four hours without intermission), he was well in
three days.
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