A celebrated physician who gave counsel free visited Rochester, and I decided to have him examine my eye. He thought the swelling would prove to be a cancer; but upon feeling my pulse he said: “You are much diseased, and will die of apoplexy before that swelling shall break out. You are in a dangerous condition with disease of the heart.” This did not startle me, for I had been aware that without speedy relief I must go down to the grave. Two other women who had come for counsel were suffering with the same disease. The physician said that I was in a more dangerous condition than either of them, and it could not be more than three weeks before I would be afflicted with paralysis. {LS 151.2}

En berømt læge som gav gratis råd besøgte Rochester, og jeg besluttede mig at få ham til at undersøge mit øje. Han mente at svulsten ville vise sig at være canser; men da han mærkede min puls sagde han: "Du er meget syg, og vil dø af apopleksi før den svulst bryder ud. Du er i en farlig situation med hjertesygdom." Dette forskrækkede mig ikke, for jeg har været klar over at uden hurtig hjælp måtte jeg gå i graven. To andre kvinder som var kommet og fået råd, havde den samme sygdom. Lægen sagde at jeg var i den farligste tilstand frem for nogen af dem, og der kunne ikke gå mere end tre uger før jeg ville blive ramt af lammelse.