Subject: October 10, 2015 at 12:30 p.m. From: Ernst Meyer Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 12:35:45 -0400 To: Anne_Bingham , "McPhedran, Peter" , townsendfarm BCC: ernstmeyer@earthlink.net, "Meyer, Klemens" , Benjamin , Nathaniel , Cyndy Behrman , Marion Namenwirth October 10, 2015 at 12:32 p.m. Last evening, when I asked Margaret did she want something to eat, she said yes; did she want something to drink, she said yes, yes, ... and I complied with the consequence that yesterday, Margaret drank more than a quart of whole milk. Subsequently she became restless and started to moan. I heard her moaning continuously during the several hours of the night while I was awake. When I investigated, I found that her left arm still under the sheet was very warm, and I inferred that she was covered with too many blankets. Removing them, however, did not stop her moaning. Remarkable, and in my judgment diagnostic, was the circumstance that when I so much as touched the skin of her forearm or her hand she cried out as if in pain. Inasmuch as the response to touch was grossly disproportionate and totally inappropriate to the stimulus, I infer that analogous to the exaggerated response to touch, the moaning is not an index of pain or suffering and does not justify the administration of tranquilizers or narcotics.