THE NURSE'S INNOCENCE.
A physician engaged a nurse recently graduated for, a case of delirium tremens. The physician succeeded in r;uiCL!ii;_r his patient, and left some medicine, instructing the nurse to adn: mister it to him if he began to see rn-.res again.
At the next call the physician found tie patient again raving. To his p t zied inquiry the nurse teplied that the man had been going on .that way for several hours, and that- she had not given him any medicine. "But didn't I tell you'to give,it to him if he began to see snakes again ?' asked the physician. "But he didn't see snakes this time," replied the nurse. '"He saw red, whit?, and blue turkeys with straw hats on !"
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 527, 18 December 1912, Page 2
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123THE NURSE'S INNOCENCE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 527, 18 December 1912, Page 2
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