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Later, when the party arrived back in Lucerne, and found Mrs. Bertrand already there, her husband asked her: "Were there five of you in the carriage, and did you stop at the Lungren Hotel?" "Yes," replied his wife, "but who told you?" Here is one of the many exits for which an anaesthetic has been responsible. The story is told by Miss M. A. B., of Letch-worth, Herts.
"I once had to undergo a slight operation, for which purpose ether was administered, at a large hospital in northern England. I had recently lost a brother, and almost at once I had the strong idea: This is what brother felt like when he died. I won't die, I won't.
"I struggled violently, so that two nurses and the specialist were unable to hold me, and were obliged to hurry for chloroform and try that.... The next thing I knew there was some piercing screaming going on, that I was up in the air and looking down upon the bed over which the nurses and doctor were bending.
"What specially struck me, and remains particularly vivid in my mind, were the white crosses on the nurses' backs where the bands of their white uniforms cross at the back. I was aware that they were trying in vain to stop the screaming, in fact I heard them say: 'Miss B., Miss B., don't scream like this. You are frightening the other patients.' "At the same time, I knew very well that I was quite apart from my screaming body, that I could do nothing to stop. I said to myself: 'Those silly idiots, if they had but enough sense to send for E., a great friend of mine, waiting below in the hospital, I know she could stop it.' "And just then the strangest thing happened. At my
"I once had to undergo a slight operation, for which purpose ether was administered, at a large hospital in northern England. I had recently lost a brother, and almost at once I had the strong idea: This is what brother felt like when he died. I won't die, I won't.
"I struggled violently, so that two nurses and the specialist were unable to hold me, and were obliged to hurry for chloroform and try that.... The next thing I knew there was some piercing screaming going on, that I was up in the air and looking down upon the bed over which the nurses and doctor were bending.
"What specially struck me, and remains particularly vivid in my mind, were the white crosses on the nurses' backs where the bands of their white uniforms cross at the back. I was aware that they were trying in vain to stop the screaming, in fact I heard them say: 'Miss B., Miss B., don't scream like this. You are frightening the other patients.' "At the same time, I knew very well that I was quite apart from my screaming body, that I could do nothing to stop. I said to myself: 'Those silly idiots, if they had but enough sense to send for E., a great friend of mine, waiting below in the hospital, I know she could stop it.' "And just then the strangest thing happened. At my
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