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Vienna, July 24, 1893
Dearest friend,
I intended to quarrel with you for preferring the Carpathians to the Alps, especially since you are going to the mountains, but I recently met your father-in-law at the South Station — God give all children of Israel an old age like his — and heard from him that it will take me only eight hours to get to Csorba instead of sixteen to twenty hours to a high-altitude alpine resort, that it is very beautiful there, and that you have definitely made up your mind, and therefore I yield. Yesterday on Mount Rax a beast stung my right hand; I can barely write because of the edema; I say this only to protect you from a diagnostic error.
I am already quite bored in Vienna and look forward very much to our meeting. In Reichenau everyone is doing fine; all the little rascals are thriving, my wife feels well.
At last the hysterical paralyses have appeared, but I do not yet have any offprints. In the last Progrès médical1 I saw something about the nose. If you cannot get it, I'll send it to you by return mail. This year I have not been to the Brühl at all. The summer is strangely quiet after a medically very eventful half-year.
With cordial greetings to you and your dear wife,
Your faithful
Sigm. Freud
Progrès médical: Journal de médecine, de chirurgie et de pharmacie, 18 (1893): 39-40, carried the summary of a paper by a Dr. Laborde, “Le réflexe nasal dans la syncope chloroformique.” The paper was delivered to the Académie de Médecine at its meeting of July 11, 1893. Freud cites it because of the tie-in to Fliess's work on the nose, but in actuality the article had nothing to do with Fliess's theories.