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Mila Sharp letters to her brother, February 1885
1885-02-20 Page 3
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3 of gray hairs to my fast bleaching (top knot) hair those cases gave me a much better reputation than I deserved and the feeling that it was really unmerited, detracted much from the enjoyment of it, However every thing moved along nicely until the last of August when Cholera Infantum took the fast accumulating conceit out of me by carrying off one of my patients nineteen hours after first call. I think next to the mother I might have been considered the chief mourner of its death. Our home being in a small country town of about five or six hundred and my husband being the principal surgeon of the place I was favored with a little of all sorts of practice, assisting him in
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3 of gray hairs to my fast bleaching (top knot) hair those cases gave me a much better reputation than I deserved and the feeling that it was really unmerited, detracted much from the enjoyment of it, However every thing moved along nicely until the last of August when Cholera Infantum took the fast accumulating conceit out of me by carrying off one of my patients nineteen hours after first call. I think next to the mother I might have been considered the chief mourner of its death. Our home being in a small country town of about five or six hundred and my husband being the principal surgeon of the place I was favored with a little of all sorts of practice, assisting him in
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