DISPENSING ON BOARD SHIP.
It is related that a lieutenant, in command of one of her Majesty’s gun-boats, deemed the responsibility of™ a charge of a medicine chest too much for him. Immediately she was off soundings the gallant officer mustered all hands, and divided the contents of the chest equally, so that each had ‘ his wack and na mair.’ A man-of-war doctor, whose name is unfortunately lost to posterity, had a simple method of locating a man’s ailment and al leviating it (save the mark) by drastic and infallible remedies. He would tie a piece of tape around the waist of the complaining mariner, and command him to declare whether his pain existed above or below the tape. If above nn emetic, and if below a dose of salts followed as a matter of course,
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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 166, 7 October 1892, Page 8
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136DISPENSING ON BOARD SHIP. Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 166, 7 October 1892, Page 8
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