3.30--Static electricity.
4.15--Weight taken.
4.30--Cold pack.
5--Cup of Predigested Maltese Milk.
5.30--Visit from head nurse.
6.30--Supper.
Cornetta Mush.
Poached Egg on Whole-Wheat Toast.
Sterilized Stewed Apples--Zephyrettes.
Cup of Somnolina.
(A beverage from which everything pleasant and
harmful has been extracted by a beneficent process.)
7.30--Miss Blossom, the nurse, insists on reading to me. It is not a
good performance but it doesn't matter. I know that Dick and Amy
Darling are just starting for the theater.
8.30--Tepid sponge bath.
9--Massage.
9.30--Glass of peptonized water.
9.45--Temperature and pulse taken.
10--Lights out.
Never in all my twenty-five years of life have I passed a busier or
more exhausting day.
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