To Emma Darwin [18 April 1851]
[Malvern]
Friday | 7 oclock
Dr. Gully not come.
She appears dreadfully exhausted, & I thought for some time she was sinking, but she has now rallied a little. The two symptoms Dr. G, dreads most have not come on restlessness & coldness.— If her three awful fits of vomiting were not of the nature of a crisis, I look at the case as hopeless.— I cannot realise our position, God Help us.—
7o. 30’. Dr. Gully has been & thank God he says though the appearances are so bad, positively no one important symptom is worse, & that he yet has hopes—positively he has Hopes.— Oh my dear be thankful..—
Four deluges of vomiting she has had today—poor thing—
Summary
Reports on Anne’s condition.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1401
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
- Sent from
- Malvern
- Source of text
- DAR 210.13: 10
- Physical description
- AL 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1401,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1401.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5