“I will never forget my first experience in the hospital work,”
said Chief Surgeon Millar, of the Central Emergency Hospital,
San Francisco. “There was a green nurse in the detention ward
and we had a very violent case in there--a man in the worst
stage of delirium tremens. I was awakened in the middle of the
night by the head nurse, who requested me to come at once to the
patient. When I got there I found him raving and very violent,
with the new nurse scared out of her wits. I said:
“‘Why did you let him go so far? I left you some medicine to
give him as soon as he got delirious.’
“‘Yes, doctor,’ she replied; ‘but you told me to give that to
him if he saw any more snakes, and this time he was seeing blue
dogs with pink tails.’”--San Francisco _Call_.
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