Eight Whiskies a Day.

Otago Witness, Issue 2804, 11 December 1907, Page 91

Eight Whiskies a Day.

i A Philadelphia physician says that not long' ago he was called in to see an Irisb-I man, and among- other directions told £im to take an ounce of whisky three times a day. A day or so later he made another visit, and found the man, while not sick, undeniably drunk. "How did this happen?" the physioiaa demanded of Pat's wife, who was hovering about solicitously. '*Shure, dochter, an' 'tis ju3t what you Ordered, an' no more, that he had," she protested. ? "I said one ounce of /whisky three times a day; that could not make him drunk," the physician 6aid. "He has had much more than that," ' "Devil a drop more, dochtor, dear,'.' she declared. "Shure, an' Oi didn't know just how much an ounce was, so Oi wint to the drug store an' asked, an' the ladhe's a broth of a boy, too— told me that an ounce was eight drams, and Pat has had thim regular — an ounce, an' no more !"