The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-14
D0CTOR-cAPTAIN
EXHAUSTS SKILL
Absorbent Cotton Fails 10 Stop Leak
and Snip Founders.
New York World.)


SCENE-Of Hatteras on a stormy
night. Laboring heavily in the gale is
the hospital ship First Aid, L. S. y.
The dOctor-captain, the docSor-lieuten-
ant commander and the doctor-licuten-
ant in command of the ship by virtue
of President Roosevelts new order are
holding a consultation in what they
call the administration Office, other
wise the captains cabin.
The lieutenant (anxiously-What the
deuce makes her shake so?
The lieutenant commander dubious
ly)-I cannot diagnose whether she has
ague or paralysis agitans.
The captain with decision)--Order
the nurses TO sprinkle the decks with
equal parts of quinine and strychDia.
That should stop the muscular tre1l-
bling, whether it's due to malaria or
TO some brain lesion.
Head nurse (enteTing eXcitndly)---
Doctor. the chief mechanic reports
that the main pump is disabled and
won't pump. The valves
The lieutenant Gnterrupting)-Mitra
or Ventrical?
The lieutenant commander excited
ly)-Heart failure.
The captain (after redection)-Teil
him TO give the pump a hypodermic
injection of whisky and diSitalis. That
must stimulate its action. Nurse
turns to GOD And, nurse, ask the
lookout what his prognosis is as to our
distance from land.
The lieutenant (feverishly)-And take
the temperature, nurse.
Head nurse (retuTning)-The temper
allure is way below normal, doctor, and
the wind is breathing strongly out fit
fully. The chief cabinatmake' reports
she is leaking badly on the left side
near the sailors bedrooms.
The captain tossing him a little box
of absorbent cOtton)-liiVe him this.
CWriting hurriedlyD And here's an
order on the apothecary for a roll of
bandage and a dozen inch strips of adj
hesive plaster. With these simple REM
edies / once checked a hemorrhage
which every other surgeon DIT the bed
side said would be fatal.
The lieutenant appTehansiveiy)-I
don't like the patients condition at
all. Gracious, hear her groaa.
The lieutenant commander tsugges-
tively)-A little morphia would quiet
her, surely.
Head nurse (reapDedring)-DOctO
somebody or other says she has two
feet of water in her forehead.
The lieutenant (excitedlyl-Ih her
forehead? She must have hydrocepha-
lus.
The lieutenant commands ids
gustedly)-Shes dropsical, by Jove!
The captain (serenely)--Tou ought
to know, doctor. that dropsy is only a
symptom. In this case. it is caused,
undoubtedly by the failure of the
pumps action. AS | sail before, our
whole endeavOr must be to stimulate
that action. Heroic treatment is need
ed. Nurse, place a dem;john of wills
ky, quart of extract of digitalis and
three tanks of oxygen alongside the
pump and tell the chief engineer we
will be there i'm a few minutes.
lawful crash on deck. Plainly, the
First Aid needs it HERSELF.
First lieutenant tdespairingly)
Good gracious. she's in collapse.
Head nurse crushing in)-Tlease
dOctOr,t an awful big wave hit her. one
of the chimneys tumbled and fractured
Able Seaman Marlinspike's skull,
hot water pipe burst and scalded a
machinist and Nurse Pilster fell down
the back stairs and broke mis- LEFT fe-
muir. They're being put 20 bed: The
instruments, the spints, the banJages
are ready. VIII you come as soon as
possible, doctor?
The captain GmperiOuslyG-Sc The
ships carpenter TO the patients, nurse.
We are engTOssed in navigation. Cen
tlemen-surgeons, / thilE You Will
agree with me that our patient is in
articulo mOrtis. But we should have
had a veterinary surgeon on board
she is about to founder
QThe good ship fOundsrs).