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2 first, and always causing some annoyance, but nothing serious enough, he thought, to consult a Dr, but the last winter
or spring on the farm they felt that it must be attended to as it was growing so large. so he went to Dr Gorton who said he
had never seen any thing like it, and advised him to do nothing until he had consulted Dr illegible , he also told him he
had never seen anything just like it but gave him medicine, a few days before leaving Portage, while they were at the house
selling what they could of my things and packing up the rest of them to bring out with them, the lump broke Dr Meacher then
thought it had developed into a case of Lupus P illegible lin said he had removed a Lupus sore of the same kind from a patient
back and would attend to his if he could stay, but they were all broke up, and anxious to go illegible and see about a home,
thinking it could be healed, the Dr said it would take a long time at best and gave him what was best to use. and so it has
gone on, some parts of it seemed to be healing, and he would work when he could, but later it has spread until it is worse
than you can think. illegible will start East