Lucubrationes

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IT is told that before the invention of the telephone a large Boston hospital had a communication system that in the house officers' quarters consisted of six speaking tubes, each with a bell that could be jangled with a cord. One night the supervisor inadvertently jangled the six bells together, and shortly six tired voices simultaneously ordered, "Give him a quarter of morphine."It does often seem that the administration of morphine allays practically all the ills of the night. If that is true, how great an easement to the combined effort of responding to the night call and of . . .

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