Yet she was getting worse owing to your lack of understanding?—I didn't look at it in that light.
B. H., who attended Mrs. Dixon, said she was a trained nurse with nine years' experience. Witness had, during the past two years, become a Christian Scientist nurse. She was not a practitioner.
The Coroner: Has a practitioner any special qualifications?—No, a practitioner is one who prays for another.
The Coroner: Would you give a patient a mustard poultice?—No.
But you would give her a hot-water bottle?—Yes.
Then where do you draw the line? You don't believe in material aid?—No,
I believe the other is better.
Do you believe in a judicious continuation of both?—No.
Did you give her beef tea?—Yes, as a nourishment.
But, nurse, you ought to know what every medical man knows, that beef tea is a stimulant. Do you believe in stimulants?—Not at all.
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