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The Exploits of Elaine by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
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Sanitarium for Women, whose story I shall relate substantially as
we received it from his own lips:

It must have been that same night that a distinguished visitor
drove up in a cab to our Hillside Sanitarium, rang the bell and
was admitted to my office. I might describe him as a moderately
tall, well-built man with a pleasing way about him. Chiefly
noticeable, it seems to me, were his mustache and bushy beard,
quite medical and foreign.

I am, by the way, the superintending physician, and that night I
was sitting with Dr. Thompson, my assistant, in the office
discussing a rather interesting case, when an attendant came in
with a card and handed it to me. It read simply, "Dr. Ludwig
Reinstrom, Coblenz."

"Here's that Dr. Reinstrom, Thompson, about whom my friend in
Germany wrote the other day," I remarked, nodding to the attendant
to admit Dr. Reinstrom.

I might explain that while I was abroad some time ago, I made a
particular study of the "Daemmerschlaf"--otherwise, the "twilight
sleep," at Freiburg where it was developed and at other places in
Germany where the subject had attracted great attention. I was
much impressed and had imported the treatment to Hillside.

While we waited I reached into my desk and drew out the letter to
which I referred, which ended, I recall:

"As Dr. Reinstrom is in America, he will probably call on you. I
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