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Letter to Friedrich Engels, August 9, 1857
| Author(s) | Karl Marx |
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| Written | 9 August 1857 |
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 40
MARX TO ENGELS
IN WATERLOO NEAR LIVERPOOL
[London,] 9 August 1857
Dear Engels,
Today I am prevented from writing more than a few lines— just my best wishes for your recovery. My ANXIETY for your BODILY welfare is as great as if I myself were ill—greater, perhaps.
How are things in regard to 'coughing'? So far as I can judge from your letters, at least you're not much troubled with it.
My doctor, who has treated a great many CASES such as yours, says that if a patient's condition does not permit of his bathing in the sea, he has successfully prescribed washing all over in heated (TEPID) sea water, the temperature being gradually reduced.
Let me know whether you are taking iron. In cases such as yours, as in many others, iron has proved stronger than the affliction.[1]
Salut.
Your
K. M.
- ↑ Marx uses an inversion of the German saying 'Not bricht Eisen', literally 'Necessity breaks iron', making a pun on the word 'Not', which also means 'affliction'.