| Description | Dear Signor
I should have written sooner to thank you for your most kind letter, & still kinder thought in writing it, but that I thought I ought before doing so to read the little brochure which accompanied it. This I have now done, and I find that half the treatment has been adopted by me, and regularly carried out for a long time past, namely the drinking of hot water, which is strenously advocated by Dr Lauder Brunton in whose hands I am & who is admittedly the first authority on 'Athenoma' which is my complaint. The ailment is no recondite one; it is thoroughly understood in its nature, but being brought into activity largely by the nerves it is capricious and elusive going, often, as capriciously as it came but, in any case, tedious and long. I do not feel, therefore, the disease & the specialists being what they are - justified in placing myself - at all events at present - in other hands. Meanwhile I keep Dr Keighley's address in case I someday need it. Give my best love to Mary & believe me with renewed & sincerely thanks
Yours affec'ly
Fred Leighton |