Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1936

Letter ID: 1718

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

September 7, 1936

G did not have good sleep at night...

Said bad sleep was due to the beastly blanket and mattress. Prefers a bedsheet to wrap himself according to former custom.

He has to be given a tonic injection “une tous les deux jours” – on alternate days?

Yes, if that is the direction.

His fever has to be brought down. Dr. Becharlal advises his native drug galoye...

If it does not clash with the injections.

We must also give cod-liver oil, but I fear to begin at once as he has fever and may not be able to digest. Still I will try from tomorrow one teaspoon a day.

You can wait till whenever it is suitable to give it. Perhaps the injections should be finished first.

“To move in the open” is surely the very thing, but don’t you think with running fever of 101.4°, weakness, etc. it would be a little too much?

That of course – The objection is to making him a permanently sedentary invalid – that is what so many are becoming.

Till his fever comes down and weakness disappears, I think you will agree that his daily work has to be cut short.

Mother has stopped his work.

Why not take A out of the doctors’ hands now by pumping a big dose?

Very refractory to big doses.

Dr. Becharlal prescribes butter for my amaigrissement and cod-liver oil by myself.

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[Sri Aurobindo put 2 interrogation marks. ]