"Look at your watch, and in three minutes give me the second injection.
There's ether there in the larger bottle."
I glanced at the time, and, holding my watch in my hand, waited until
the three minutes had passed. We were silent, all three of us, until I
took up a piece of cotton wool, and, saturating it with ether, nibbed it
carefully on the flesh. Then I gave him the second injection.
"Good!" he said approvingly. "It acts marvellously. I shall be better
in a few moments. Did you feel your head reeling and your strength
failing?"