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XXII
PIAZZA DI SPAGNA
My very first patient was Mrs. P. the wife of
the well known English banker in Rome.
She had been laid up on her back for nearly three
years after a fall from her horse while riding to
hounds in the Campagna. All the foreign doctors
in Rome had been attending her in turn, a month
ago she had even consulted Charcot, who had
given her my name, I did not know he was aware
of my having settled in Rome. As soon I had
examined her, I understood that the prophecy
of the Swedish Minister was going to be fulfilled.
I knew that once more Fortuna stood by my side,
invisible to all but myself. It was indeed a lucky
case to start my Roman practice, the patient was
the most popular lady in the foreign colony. I
realized that it was the shock and no permanent
injury to her spine that had paralyzed her limbs
and that faith and massage would put her on her
legs in a couple of months. I told her so what
nobody else had ever dared to tell her and I kept
my word. She began to improve before I had
begun the massage. In less than three months
she was seen by half the fashionable Roman
society stepping out of her carriage in Villa
Borghese and walking about under the trees
leaning on her stick. It was looked upon as a
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