16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
pulse; chaotic defecation. Thank you, my dear'
– this to the girl with the coca-leaves.
They carried on with Martin's present state,
and when Stephen had said all that occurred
to him without reference to his notes Geary
asked, 'Is there on the one hand a difficulty in
telling right from left, and on the other a certain
loss of hair?'
'There is,' said Stephen: he stopped chewing
and looked attentively at his friend.
'I have known two similar cases, and in Vienna
itself I heard of several more.'
'Did you hear of cures, at all?'
'Certainly. Both my men walked away from
the hospital unaided, one quite well, the other
with only a slight impediment: though in his
case there had been a baldness of the entire
person and loss of nails, which Birnbaum cites
as the criterion; but the treatment was long