I have often made the
effort to treat them where they have lived and to isolate them there,
but I have rarely done so without promising myself that I would not
again complicate my treatment by any such embarrassments. Once separate
the patient from the moral and physical surroundings which have become
part of her life of sickness, and you will have made a change which will
be in itself beneficial and will enormously aid in the treatment which
is to follow. Of course this step is not essential in such cases as are
merely anaemic, feeble, and thin, owing to distinct causes, like the
exhaustion of overwork, blood-losses, dyspepsia, low fevers, or nursing.
There are but too many women who have broken down under such causes and
failed to climb again to the level of health, despite all that could be
done for them; and when such persons are free from emotional excitement
or hysterical complications there is no reason why the seclusion needful
to secure them repose of mind should not be pleasantly modified in
accordance with the dictates of common sense.
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