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but accountably, deserted me. I asked for something to ease my throat and the attendant lazily made me say, "ah-h" and daubed my pallet with silver nitrate. I watched him. He was good naturedly careless and did not a white of work that he wasn't downright made to do. One poor chap was burning with a fever. Our guardian expressed himself so sorry and continued puffing his cigarette. The place was noisy as could be. Two fellows who were going out on the morrow were wrestling on the bare floor and playing tag. A hubbub such as this was entirely foreign to my idea of a hospital, although it is 8 years since I've been in such an institution. The men were allowed to do as they d-d pleased according to the practice. No medicine was issued. There was, and is, no hot water to bath with. The lavatory was distinctly unsanitary for a modern hospital which is supposed to be highly