I was
ill for two weeks, and meantime, my half-sister in Delaware County,
to whom I made known my condition, sent me money for my expenses,
and when I had sufficiently recovered to travel, I went to this
sister's house in Sidney, and there I remained several days, till I
was quite well and strong again.
Casting about for something to do, a friend told me that he knew of
an opportunity for a good man at Newbury to take care of a young
man, eighteen years of age, who was insane. I went there and saw his
father, and he put him under my charge. I had the care of him four
months, and during the last two months of the time I traveled about
with him, and returned him, finally, to his friends in a materially
improved condition. The friends of another insane man in Montgomery,
near Newbury, hearing of my success with this young man, sent for me
to come and see them. I went there and found a man who had been
insane seven years, but who was quiet and well-behaved, only he was
"out of his head." I engaged to do what I could for him. The father
of my Newbury patient had paid me well, and with my medical practice
and the sale of medicines in traveling about, I had accumulated
several hundred dollars, and when I went to Montgomery I had a good
horse and buggy which cost me five hundred dollars. So, when my new
patient had been under my care and control two months, I proposed
that he should travel about with me in my buggy, and visit various
parts of the State in the immediate vicinity.
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