PROBABLY AN ERROR.
A subscriber to tho telephone exchange asked to be placed in communication Avith his medical man. Subscriber: "My wife complains of a severe pain at the back of her neck, and occasional nausea." Doctor : " She must havo malaria." Subscriber: "What's best to bo done . " At this moment tho clerk at tho central station alters the switch by mistake, and the unlucky husband receives the reply of a mechanical engineer in answer to inquiries of a millowner. Engineer: "I believe the inside is lined Avith excoriations to a considerable thickness. Let hor cool during tho night, and in the morning before firing up, tako a hammer and pound her A'igorously. Then get a garden hose Avith strong pressure from tho main and let it play freely on the parts affected." To his great surprise the doctor never saw his client again.
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Bush Advocate, Volume V, Issue 339, 12 July 1890, Page 8
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143PROBABLY AN ERROR. Bush Advocate, Volume V, Issue 339, 12 July 1890, Page 8
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