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He was very weak and very pale, but the one danger that Catlin had feared and kept mostly to himself, the danger of blood-poisoning, was now definitely past, and the patient's physical condition slowly brought about a thorough and complete recovery. "Some of it you owe to yourself, Wade, as the reward of decent living, and some of it you owe to the Lord," Catlin told him smilingly.
Surgery had done what it could, but signs of blood-poisoning had appeared, and the man's days were numbered. The doctor had left written instructions, which the nurse handed over to Meynell. If certain symptoms appeared, the doctor was to be summoned. But in all probability the man's fine constitution, injured though it had been by drink, would enable him to hold out another day or two.
Plenty of pus and a big ugly scar in preference to an attack of dangerous blood-poisoning. Even if it didn't kill you, it might easily cripple you for life by involving a joint. The trouble was with their logic, or rather with their premises.
"I made a damn fool " "It doesn't matter," she said sharply. "Julie's got blood-poisoning. They may" she choked over the words "they think she'll have to lose her hand." "What?" "She cut herself on that that bowl." "Last night?" "Oh, what does it matter?" see cried; "she's got blood-poisoning. Can't you hear?" He looked at her bewildered sat half-way up in bed. "I'll get dressed," he said.
"We are a little anxious about him," his sister had said, and she had mentioned the word "blood-poisoning." Of the full meaning of that dread word Kathleen had little knowledge, but it held for her a horror of something unspeakably dangerous. He had been restless, sleepless, suffering for the last two days and two nights. That very night and that very hour he was perhaps tossing in fever.
When the laughter had ceased, Ruddie, who seemed a serious-minded youth, began a story of an uncle of his who had contracted blood-poisoning from the dye in his stockings. What ultimately happened to the uncle Clint never discovered, for the others very rudely broke in on Ruddie's reminiscences and the conversation became general and varied.
As a tasty little finish, Reggie and his rival lock themselves in an empty room, and engage in a contest governed by packing-house rules. Three days after the combat, by the way, the company heads were pleased to announce that both men were out of danger unless blood-poisoning set in.
It was thought to be a case of diphtheria, and the doctor, to protect his little son, one and one-half years old, against possible infection, administered an injection of antitoxin. Shortly afterward the child developed symptoms of blood-poisoning and died of heart-failure within twenty-four hours.
But Cameron, glancing quietly at him, continued to discuss the condition of the boy. "Yes, you must get the doctor here at once. There is danger of blood-poisoning. The boy may lose his foot." And he continued to describe the gruesome possibilities of neglect of that lacerated wound. As he rose from the couch the boy caught his arm. "You' squaw good. Come see me," he said. "Good good."
A few moments later he lost consciousness, after which I left him to the care of the hospital authorities and hurried away to send the priest and to tell his wife. For a week thereafter he lingered in a very serious condition and finally died, blood-poisoning having set in.
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