Robert Goodbody Journal

made of it, it was discontinued for the future. It was at this time that my mother was hit by a man in the street in the breast, a man carrying a trunk which hit her in the gender part, very soon after she came home she felt a lump in her breast, which was painful. My father brought her to Dublin, and had the best advice he could get for her, from a surgean, who gave her remedies a principle of which was dandelion juices, and some ointment to rub on her breast, but to keep her mind quiet, and use mild exercise, but if she got worse to see him again. She was under this treatment and getting better until the illness of my father in the 8th mo. of which he died. My father left home for Dublin on a first day evening going to Rathangan to lodge at Jos .Pin's. it was then very warm weather, as the whole summer had been, and my father leaving home had on him a thin jane vest, and small clothes, but next day very cold in the canal boat, and it was thought that he got cold. However William Pim was then ill in a fever, but not supposed to be in danger. It was said to my father got it from him; he might have been in the house, but doubt that he was in hisroom. My father was fearful of fever. However, after he went to Dublin he kept his bed several days at R.M. Jackson's, where he always lodged. My mother might have heard of his getting safe, but never heard of his being ill, and not getting letters by post as she used to do regularly before from father, she because very uneasy, and every morning was telling us uneasy she was, and having frightful dreams, seeing him at the point of death, and that she was certain the he was ill. Nothing could persuade her but that he was going to die. I suppose it was to keep her fretting, on account of her breast

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