Five patients were chronic victims.

Had they shared my knowledgehad they even so much as dreamed that their patient had been the companion of one or both of the others in this tragic escapadehow much greater would have been their wonder at the character of this awakening.

To my mind, not only were the doctors and attendants detectives; each patient was a detective and the whole institution was a part of the Third Degree.

The patient was a lithe, muscular woman and to restrain her movements during the attack with the assistance at hand was a matter of impossibility, so all that could be done was to prevent her injuring herself and to sprinkle her freely with cold water.

Every wound and sore, when antiseptic precautions are not used, becomes a most active and dangerous focus, and every patient suffering from an infective disease is probably a focus for the production of infective particles.

Patients, for instance, who were members of the Order received meals twice as large as other patients.

Patient is an adjective.

Later she put on a gingham overgown, sprinkled it and her hands with camphor, and went into the outer wards where the isolated patients laywhere hospital gangrene and erysipelas were the horrors.

The patient might be a confirmed opium-eater, and the symptoms heightened by deliberate deception.

"I am called," went on the doctor dryly, "to examine a case in which the patient is dangerously illin fact, hopelessly ill, and I have found that the cause of his illness is a state of nervous expectancy on the part of the sufferer.

We'n bin patient an' quiet as lung as we con; Th' bits o' things we had by us are welly o' gone; Mi clogs an' mi shoon are both gettin' worn eawt, An' my halliday clooas are o' gone "up th' speawt!" Mony a time i' my days aw've sin things lookin' feaw, But never as awkard as what they are neaw; Iv there isn't some help for us factory folk soon, Aw'm sure 'at we's o' be knock'd reet eawt o' tune.

This patient was France; and the royalists, who were assembled in the house of Count de la Pere, now felt that the patient's case was hopeless, and that nothing remained to them but to go into exile, and bemoan his sad fate!

He says: The patient was a little girl about ten years of age, bright and intelligent and one of twins, the other being a boy, equally bright and well-disposed.

The patients who were kept under the red light recovered rapidly, though some of them were unvaccinated children, and bad cases.

Patients are frequently ill only twenty-four hours.

" From the first the hospital patients with their varied needs were a great interest to her.

The patient was a poor, old female, in the last stage of decrepitude, and fast sinking beneath the sorrows of life.

The patient, plodding mule is indeed an animal that has served us well in the army, and done a great amount of good for humanity during the late war.

And in whatever conditions the patient is, or is likely to be, there will still be the broken leg, until it is set.

They went over the common rooms and private habitations of the establishment, the director prattling unceasingly about the care with which the patients were tendedmuch better care, if he was to be believed, than they could possibly have had in the bosoms of their familiesand priding himself upon the results achieved, and which had earned for the place its well-merited success.

Scorbutic patients are an exception, they often crave for sweetmeats and jams.

I soon observed that the only patients who were not likely to be subjected to abuse were the very ones least in need of care and treatment.

Always the part is hot and tender, and with it the patient is lameso much so, in many cases, as to be unable to put the foot to the ground, the toe alone being used.

It began to look as if his patient, Mr. Graves, might actually be Jeffrey Blackmore.

This morning our patient was well again; a doubly fortunate circumstance, as we had to pass a terribly rocky and stony road.