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(1929) [MARC] Author: Axel Munthe - Tema: Medicine
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been called to Chantilly to attend the Duc
d’Aumale. Monseigneur had been seen walking
unaided in the park of his château, it was a
marvellous recovery. Doctor Norstrom was also
attending the Duc de Montpensier crippled with
gout for years and now rapidly improving.

Then came the turn of Princess Mathilde, soon
to be followed by Don Pedro of Brazil, a couple
of Russian Grand Dukes, an Austrian
Arch-Duchess and the Infanta Eulalia of Spain.

My friend Norstrom, who after his return from
Chantilly obeyed me blindly, had been forbidden
by me to accept any other patients but
royalties until further orders. I assured him this
was sound tactics, founded on solid psychological
facts. Two months later Norstrom was back in
his smart apartment at the Boulevard
Haussmann, his consulting-room crammed with patients
from all countries, Americans heading the list.
In the autumn appeared his ‘Manuel de Massage
Suédois’ by Doctor Gustave Norstrom, Paris,
Librairie Hachette, concocted by us with feverish
haste from different Swedish sources, an American
edition appearing simultaneously in New-York.
In the early winter Norstrom was summoned to
Newport to attend old Mr. Vanderbilt, the fee
to be fixed by himself. To his dismay I forbade
him to go, a month later the old multimillionaire
was shipped to Europe to take his place among
Norstrom’s other patients—a living réclame in
gigantic letters, visible all over the United States.
Norstrom was hard at work from morning till
night rubbing his patients with his enormous
thumbs, his thumb balls gradually assuming the

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