The Archive · 1897

Apparently Much Better

On this day the prisoner wrote an order for one ounce of Fowler's Solution to Ma-mya's, and sent Miss Jacob for it. Miss Jacob obtained it and handed it to the prisoner. On the same day the prisoner ordered and obtained from Schedel's half-an-ounce of Fowler's Solution. In the order for it she said she could not send the old bottle as it had been broken. On Thursday, the 22nd, Dr. Wheeler found his patient much worse, and he determined to try and have him admitted to the Naval Hospital. He had then become very uneasy regarding the symptoms. That morning Dr. Wheeler wont to Mr. Boag's funeral and while there @ communication was made to him. After the funeral he took all the steps he could to get Mr. Carew taken to the Naval Hospital, but on account of the absence of Dr. Todd it was nearly two o'clock when the necessary permission was obtained. Before that time r. Wheeler went round to the house and saw both Mrs. Carew and the patient. The patient was then much worse. The doctor informed Mrs. Carew that he proposed to have her husband conveyed to the hospital, and at 3 o'clock he obtained a stretcher and went to the house, where he saw the deceased again. He was then worse still and had a sort of tetanic spasm. He was carried down in the clothes to the stretcher and so

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