HER "OUT PATIENT"
nuRse d'osed man-eating LION WITH. SttOT OF MORPHIA. LONDON Saturday. "Medicine for out patient, 7s. 6d," i5. the .innoeent entry in. the loghook by a nurse of the Universities' Mission Nyasaland, which enabled the slaughter of a man-eating lion. ,The nurse making a round of the villages, f ound one greatly distressed owing to a lion having taken up qu'arters ih the vicinity ahd killed three people. As fif earms Were not available, she persuaded the villagers to kxll an ox, ahd iilserted sufficient morphia in it to overcome five meh. , The lioh foiiind.. tHe carcase, on which it gorged. Helpless under the ihfiuehce ,qf tHe df hg, . it beeahib an easy victim of the natives' spears.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 48, 19 October 1931, Page 4
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