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Vienna, October 6, 1893
Dearest friend,
I was just about to get cross over the absence of any news from you when your amiable letter foiled this intention. I still miss in it a positive, heartfelt assurance that you are better, but perhaps it is still too early for this, and God knows what an ordeal the operation was. When you are well again, we shall donate Schaeffer's picture to the therapeutic polyclinic, for I am objective enough to widen my interest in your recovery to the extent of identifying it with the creation of the polyclinic.
Your verdict on my Charcot obituary and the news that you read it to Ida delighted me very much. I knew nothing about the honorable plagiarism by the Allgemeine L1 Zeitung. It is very kind of you to respond to my lamentations about business in Vienna, but I really feel it is a disgrace for me to talk about it to you; it only proves the extent to which I sometimes let myself go. Especially in the case of your little sister-in-law I was grateful to Breuer, rather than angry, that he left me out, because I strongly dislike mixing friendship and business; do not, as you know, think anything of my therapy; and gladly avoid the comparison with your medical activities. In the meantime things have become more lively. The sexual business attracts people who are all stunned and then go away won over after having exclaimed,” No one has ever asked me about that before!” It is becoming more and more complicated as confirmation comes in. Yesterday, for instance, I saw four new cases whose etiology, according to the chronology, could only be coitus interruptus. You will perhaps enjoy a short account of them. They are far from being uniform.
Woman, 41; children, 16, 14, 11, and 7. Nervous for the last twelve years; well during pregnancy; recurrence afterward; not made worse by last pregnancy. Attacks of dizziness with feelings of
weakness, agoraphobia, anxious expectation, no trace of neurasthenia, little hysteria. Etiology confirmed, pure [anxiety n