The hospital of grave deformities: the full catalogue of "the other troubles"

texture · UNDATED (immediately after the rescue)

• When: UNDATED — directly after the rescue, per the account's sequence
• What: With her dented helmet unable to contain her head, Marathe carried the woman over his shoulders "in a high-speed rolling" to the nearest hospital "specializing in deformities of grave nature" — and there learned the rest of her condition, the fullest medical picture of Gertraude the novel gives: trouble of the digestive tract; seizures; "progressive decays of circulation and vessel, which calls itself restenosis"; more than the standard number of eyes and cavities "in many different stages of development upon different parts of the body"; fugue states, rages, and frequent coma; a head with "neither muscles nor nerves," all her energies committed to holding her oral cavity in a shape that allowed breathing; and — "Worst for choosing to love" — cerebro-spinal fluid dribbling at all times from her distended mouth. The hospital also supplied the one datum about her prior life: "She had wandered away from a public institution of Swiss charitable care." [Attribution note: Marathe's account to Kate; the restenosis named here is the same disease the narration and apparatus later attribute to her independently (event 5).]