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2 ill health - Her lung trouble so long necessitating isolation from home - also the other sick times that came when she
was younger. When your letter told of five weeks in the hospital - - I thought the fever was soon under control or was mild
in form or they hardly could have let her go in so short a time. When Wheler had typhoid, he had been employed by a surveying
party and was far from home - good medical attendance could not be had as soon as needed- and his trouble first took the form
of peritonitis - from which he suffered greatly. He was taken to Denver and placed in a hospital there, and by that time well
defined typhoid conditions were recognized - He had to remain in the hospital about three months - and it was eight months
before he was able to work again; The fact that the right care could not be had for many days made his case the more serious.