Notes of Hospital Life From November 1861 to August 1863
Notes of Hospital Life From November 1861 to August 1863
William Welsh
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What was to be done? Here was indeed a dilemma. He was exciting the attention of the whole ward ; it was within half an hour of inspec- tion when the surgeon in charge goes his rounds through the wards, — what would he say ? Was this the way that the ladies excited their patients? But beyond and above all, he was injuring himself; and with the tendency to inflammation in his head, I dreaded the effect of such strong excitement, and yet all I said seemed but to increase it. Suddenly it occurred ...to me that (something on the principle of " similia similibus curantur, " little as I usually admire the practice) perhaps by evoking another feeling equally powerful, I might calm him; and knowing that no one, be it man or woman, will ever submit quietly to blame without an attempt NOTES OF HOSPITAL LIFE. 137 at self-justification, I changed my tactics at once, and said : " How it is possible, that a father, who has one grain of love for his children, can permit them to remain one day, or hour, in such a den as that, is to me a marvel that I cannot comprehend.
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