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Updated: June 23, 2025
I'll bring you some fresh dressings for your head by the time you're undressed." As he talked he passed one huge arm around Gavin and carried, rather than led, him to the stairway. "Good night, Mr. Brice," called Claire from near the doorway. "I do hope your head will be ever so much better in the morning. If you want anything in the night. there's a call-bell I've put beside your bed."
We can keep on fighting and struggling and trying, but when we have to sit still and watch with folded arms the iron enters our souls, while the consciousness of helpless waiting is after all the bitterest thing we can contend against. Women are far more patient and enduring. Constantly I renewed the dressings, and bathed the limb in antiseptics, and gave a few stimulating drugs.
He had been taken prisoner by the Germans and remained so for three days, until our next advance found him installed in the German hospital. His wound was so bad that amputation alone was left to do. When the worst of the dressings was over and the stage of daily change of gauze and bandage had arrived, he always liked Sister Elizabeth to do his dressings.
"How can I sleep with all the things I am thinking about?" Then he adds faintly: "Must you? Must you?" The darkness gives me courage, and I nod my head: "Yes!" As I finish his dressings, I speak from the depths of my heart: "Leglise, we will put you to sleep to-morrow. We will make an examination without letting you suffer, and we will do what is necessary."
Under the instruction of Surgeon-General Taylor, Surgeon-Major Wilson was good enough to present each of us with a packet of first field dressings, a kindness which I appreciated, but of which I hoped not to have need. A hackneyism lacks the picturesqueness of originality, but is as useful in its way as a public road to a desired destination.
Forgotten, therefore, Lourdes remained slumbering, happy and sluggish amidst its old-time peacefulness, with its narrow, pebble-paved streets and its bleak houses with dressings of marble.
It is however, well to have some medical comforts in the shape of champagne and brandy to take after attacks of fever. Excellent native coffee can be purchased; tea and sugar must be carried. Drugs, especially iron, quinine, arsenic and phenacetin are essential as also splints, bandages and dressings in case of accidents. Now it must be remembered that the climate is hot and humid.
"I have a substitute at hand, ma belle;" and Louis pointed to the strips of leather-wood he had collected for binding the dressings on her foot. When an idea once struck Louis, he never rested till he worked it out in some way.
A quilt served for mattress and bedding for Hawk and his sunken eyes above his black beard showed how sorely he needed surgical care. To this, Laramie lost no time in getting. He provided more lights, opened his kit of dressings and with a pail of water went to work. What would have seemed impossible to a surgeon, Laramie with two hours' crude work accomplished on Hawk's wounds.
It was a strange experience, as far as I was concerned, and sometimes seemed a little unreal as, with a bed on my head, I staggered across dark courtyards, or with my arms full of lint and dressings. I groped my way down the long, unlighted corridors of a Flemish convent.
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