THOUGHT SHE WAS AN EMETIC.
A funny story is told of a servant girl brought to a hospital, suffering from the effects of an overdose of poison. When questioned as to her motive for taking it, she replied: ' I wasn't feeling well, and I went to missus's medicine-chest. There was a bottle marked 'three drops for an infant, six for an adult, and a teaspoonfulforan emetic' 1 knew 1 wasn't an infant, I wasn't sure about an adult—so I thought 1 must be the emetio, and took the spoonful.'
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2300, 23 February 1900, Page 3
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89THOUGHT SHE WAS AN EMETIC. Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2300, 23 February 1900, Page 3
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