Calmness In Emergency

Dr. Weir Mitchell, lecturing to a school of nurses lately upon the necessity of self control in emergencies, told the following incident: "One of his patients, while in a low, nervous condition, swallowed by mistake a dose from the wrong bottle. She slirieked out that she was poisoned. One of the nurses screamed 'Aconite!' and began to cry hysterically. The other nurse, seeing that the patiënt was going into convulsions from terror, when relief would be impossible, saidcoolly: 'Don'tbefrightened. Look here, ' taking a mouthful of the dose herself. She then went outside to rid her mouth of it, procured an einetic and sent f or a doctor and a stomach pump. Her calmness saved the life of the patiënt. ' '