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Home Again -LSB- Illustration -RSB- When Sam got up and began to undress to take his bath , his head swam so that he was obliged to lie down again . He tried again two or three times , but always with the same result , and finally he rang for a servant and sent for an army surgeon . The doctor came at once , took his temperature with a thermometer , and , after examining him , pronounced that he had a bad attack of fever , probably typhoid . He advised him to go to the hospital , and before noon Sam found himself comfortably installed in a hospital bed , screened off by a movable partition from a ward of fever patients . The doctor 's surmise proved to be correct , and for weeks he was dangerously ill , much of the time being delirious . He suffered once or twice also from relapses , and showed very little recuperative force when the fever finally left him . Meanwhile he was very low-spirited .