WHAT HE SAW.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 977, 26 November 1908, Page 23

WHAT HE SAW.

Dr S. Weir Mitchell, tne American novelist, tells with keen enjoyment of the exprience of a medical friend of his who engaged a nurse, recently graduated, for a case of delirium tremens. The physician succeeded in quieting the patient, and left some medicine, instructing the nurse to administer it to him again if he “began to see snakes again.” At the next call the physician found the patient again raving. To his puzzled inquiry, the nurse replied that tne man had been going on that way for several hours, and that she had not given him any medicine. “But didn’t I tell you to give it to him if ne began to see snakes again?” demanded the physician. “But he didn’t see snakes this time,” replied the nurse, confidently. “He saw red, white, and blue turkeys with straw hats on.”