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In the morning little Rachel awoke with a severe chill , accompanied by vomiting . A raging fever succeeded to this . The parents became alarmed , and Mr. Parker started off on horseback , for a physician , distant about seven miles . It was noon when the doctor arrived . He did not say much in answer to the anxious questions of the mother , but administered some medicine and promised to call on the next day . At his second visit he found nothing favorable in the symptoms of his little patient . Her fever was higher than on the day before .