Board of Guardians: Wednesday: The Rev. R. R. Wolfe presided … With regard to the woman Yeoman; she had been suffering from a disease for twenty one years. She had been in the London Hospital and discharged as incurable and had also been a patient of the Exeter and Teignmouth Dispensaries without any beneficial results. He had at his own expense consulted an eminent London physician, and also Mr. Swain, of Plymouth, both of whom agreed with his treatment and gave some suggestions. She was now quite well and able to walk to church and attend to her domestic duties, but it was his opinion if the brandy were discontinued, she would lapse into her former state, and be as bad as ever. How long it would be necessary to continue the brandy he was not prepared to say: Mr. Smallridge and Mr. Pinsont, Guardians of Kingsteington, confirmed what the doctor had stated in respect to the present condition of the woman compared with what it was before she was under Dry. Haydon’s treatment …
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