Südbahnhotel Semmering,
February 21, 1917

Dear Professor,

There is very little news to report from me. The cure house simply withdrew the promise it made two weeks ago, so I probably won't get a place there in the foreseeable future. I looked up the physician there, Dr. Kraus (a close acquaintance of Hitschmann's) several times.* He is a friendly colleague and a good doctor to boot, a specialist in morbus Basedowi. He also had great understanding for all my complaints and, despite my hypochondria, managed to reassure me each time, if only for a short while. You see, in addition to the earlier conditions there were: a small phlebitis on the ankle, spastic constipation, pain in my right wrist; as a consequence of all these minor things, sleeplessness and weight loss, approximately

Freud