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    "ocrText": "AMERICAN RED CROSS\n(CROIX-ROUGE AMÉRICAINE)\n2, Place de Rivoli, Paris.\nJanuary 27th, 1919.\nMiss Clara D. Noyes,\nActing-Director, Department of Nursing,\nAmerican Red Cross, WASHINGTON, D.C.\nMy dear Miss Noyes,\nI had not intended to mention my illness, as it has not\namounted to much and I shall be entirely well and out on a tour of\nthe hospitals long before Miss Hall's letter reaches you. As\nhowever she has mentionned it, I am writing this letter of explana-\ntion. I confess that I feel rather impatient, as I häve beén\nso well during the past years and was perfectly well on the steamer\ncoming\nover I visited practically all the hospitals in Brest\nand never felt better in my life. A few days after my arrival in\nParis, I developed a sore, throat, but as it did not seem to be\nanything very much, I paid little attentior to it, as I had no idea\nof the prevalence of throat and ear trouble over here. I did not\nsee a doctor, but did. ask for a gargle at the American Ambulance\none evening that I was out there to 'dinner. On Friday my ear\nbegan to trouble me more or less, but did not pain me specially.\nOn Saturday I felt pretty miserable, but was planning for an auto-\nmobile trip to Tours leaving Paris Sunday morning at 9 o'clock. I\nconfess that I was a little dépessed about the possibility of being\nable to get off, but as all the -plans were made, I did not like to\nmake any objection. By 3 o'clock I felt pretty wretched and went\nto the hotel, thinking that a hot water bag would probably relieve\nthe ear. By this time the pain was pretty severe and continued\nuntil about 8 o'clock, when the ear-drum ruptured. The in was\nso severe and the roaring in my head so great that I could not use\nthe telephone and so was unable to get hold of anybody until about\nthis time. (Miss Jones at A.R.C. Hospital No IOI was a perfect\ntrump. As soon as she found out the situation, she sent a nurse\nand a doctor and I was whisked out of bed, dressed in no time and\nlanded in the hospital about mid-night. The ear has cleared\nup\nvery well, but I still have a great deal of roaring in my head\nand am unable as yet to hear anything from the one ear. I do\nnot\nsuppose that I should complain, after the men have put up with so\nmuch more, but I confess I am a little annoyed and blame myself\nfor not having the sense enough to have, taken care of the throat\nin the beginning I can only hope to heaven that I shall regain\nmy hearing in time.\nMiss Stimson is in Paris for a few days and willcome with\nme to some of the military hospitals, as soon as the doctor will\nallow me to start. I came down from the hospital yesterday\nStimson"
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