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It was like getting a good message through a very imperfect telephone. One other incident of the early war days stands out in my memory. A lady in whom I was interested had died in a provincial town. She was a chronic invalid and morphia was found by her bedside. There was an inquest with an open verdict. Eight days later I went to have a sitting with Mr. Vout Peters.
Even the best East Indian opium is inferior to the Turkish, and owing to peculiarities of climate, will probably always be so. It never yields more than five per cent. of morphia, whence its inferiority, but is as good in other respects, and even richer in narcotine.
Lee is done for a day or two will end it." "Thank God," murmured John, "but I am so sorry for Lee." "Can't say I am." "Oh, that blessed morphia!" "Well, go to sleep I will see you again shortly. I have other fellows to look after. In a few minutes you will be easy. Draw the fly-nets, orderly."
"It's a woman who has been strangled." "Poor woman!" she said. "Poor poor woman!" And it seemed to her as if she said it of herself. Lying in bed in the dark that night Domini heard the church clock chime the hours. She was not restless, though she was wakeful. Indeed, she felt like a woman to whom an injection of morphia had been administered, as if she never wished to move again.
I'll see to that it can't do much harm. The morphia will keep down the pain and the poor lad will die happy. And then there was much talk of plaster bandages, and some new mechanical appliance to prevent jolting of the surgeon going home on leave who would take charge of the journey of the nurses to be sent and other matters of which he only retained a blurred remembrance.
The remaining four act very much like morphia, differing only in the size of the dose in which they prove efficient. It does not seem to congest the brain as morphia does; but its action on the biliary system is probably little less deadly than that of the more powerful narcotic.
Nor were our men in the best of moods; for they had seen the dead Fusilier, and were furious at the wounds these huge lead slugs create. The orderlies then lifted the German officer tenderly into the ambulance; and the prisoner, now feeling full of the courage that morphia and brandy give, beckoned to me. "Meine Uhr in meiner Tasche," he said, pointing to his torn trouser. "Well, what about it?"
But although it appeared quite evident that Ruthven did not want morphia, the doctor in his wisdom decreed otherwise, and the jolting journey down the rough shell-torn road, and the longer but smoother journey in the sweetly-sprung motor ambulance, were accomplished in sleep.
"I can't afford to be ill," he said to himself. "A slight dose of morphia will carry me through the day; surely I've strength of mind sufficient to take it once or twice as a medicine, and then plenty of quinine will ward off a fever, and I can go on with my work without any break or loss; meanwhile I'll look for rooms in a healthier locality."
Remember your nerves are bound to be upset after all that morphia you have had. You know that." He stopped, afraid that he had said the wrong thing, but she only frowned thoughtfully as though considering his words. "Morphia," she repeated to herself. "Yes, I suppose that is what it was.
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