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He had to be got warm, his circulation had to be restored, he had to be saved from pain and protected from further shock. Hot bottles, blankets, brandy, and morphia worked wonders in a very short time, and one could then proceed to deal with wounds. Our patients were young and vigorous, and their rate of recovery was extraordinary.
Constant and violent attacks of coughing kept the invalid from sleep, until the staff-surgeon prescribed morphia for her in fairly large doses. The poor woman was near death; why should not her last days be lightened, her last sufferings relieved? He cautioned the sergeant-major as to the danger of the drug, warning him to be careful in pouring out the doses.
The reader knows what followed. Moreover, he was led to fear that the alternations of mood caused by injections of morphia would be so great that they could not fail to excite remark. Although the new day brought every motive which can influence a man, Mr. Jocelyn found the path to freedom so steep and difficult that the ascent seemed well-nigh impossible.
The morphia was doing its merciful work. "Kept the faith," said Barry. "Yes," whispered Cameron with a smile, faint but exultant. "Good old boy," whispered Barry. "Yes, I kept I kept " The bearers came to carry out the stretcher. "Will he recover?" whispered Barry to the doctor. "Recover? Surest thing you know," said the doctor in a loud cheery voice. "We can't spare this kind of stuff, you know."
He picked up the penknife, took a particle on the tip of it, and touched it with his tongue. "Don't fool with that thing!" said Stratton. "Oh, my dear fellow," he said, "morphia is not a poison in small quantities." The moment he had tasted it, however, he suddenly picked up the paper, put the five grains on his tongue, and swallowed them. Instantly the reporter sprang to his feet.
The prosecution might have affirmed that the poison had been absorbed, and therefore was not in the stomach, and, for the support of the charge, relied upon the resemblance of the symptoms to those produced by morphia, and upon the absence of natural cause of death. A case which has acquired even more celebrity than the last is that of Mrs. Wharton of Baltimore.
That we should go out of our way to take pains to obtain embroidered sheets and lace-edged pillows, absolved us in their eyes from all the want of surgical nursing. Liberal morphia we had to give to compensate for nursing defects.
Yet he knew without turning that someone had entered, and he betrayed no surprise when Nap's hand suddenly whisked the glass from his hold and held it to the panting lips. The first words Lucas uttered when utterance became possible to him were, "No morphia!" Nap was deftly drawing away the pillows to ease his position. "All right, old fellow," he made answer.
I want to buck myself up, I want to get on with my larger purposes, and I find myself tired, muddled, entangled.... The drug was a good thing. For me it was a good thing. I want its help again." "I know no more than you do what it was." "Are there no other drugs that you do know, that have a kindred effect? If for example I tried morphia in some form?" "You'd get visions.
She gave him a teaspoonful, bending over him and being careful not to spill it down his neck. Her uniform crackled when she moved. It had rather too much starch in it. The man, whose name was Middleton, closed his eyes. Owing to the morphia, he had at least a hundred things he wished to discuss. The trouble was to fix on one out of the lot. "I feel like a bit of conversation," he observed.
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