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Date Posted: Thu, December 02 2021, 4:18:43
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Thursday, December 2, 2021

The following quotation is from Written In my Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2014 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 13 Morning Air Awash With Angels


Number 17 Chestnut Street

His Grace woke up in the morning red-eyed as a ferret and in roughly the same temper as a rabid badger. Had I a tranquilizing dart, I would have shot him with it without an instant’s hesitation. As it was, I prescribed a large slug of brandy to be added to his breakfast coffee and - after a brief struggle with my Hippocratic conscience - added a very small amount of laudanum to it.

I couldn’t give him too much; it depressed the respiration, among other things. Still, I reasoned, counting the aromatic reddish-brown drops as they plinked into the brandy, it was a more humane way of dealing with him that crowning him with the chamber pot or calling Mrs. Figg to sit on him whilst I tied him to the bedstead and gagged him.

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[> This is one of my favorite titles. Just say it out loud and picture it, it’s so beautiful. It’s from a poem and I have to look it up each time and it doesn’t stick with me, but I just love it. Claire’s intelligent, not exactly by the book, treatment of Hal is another fine example of nursing at it’s best! -- Kathy in PA, Thu, December 02 2021, 13:08:00

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[> [> I looked it up - it is a beautiful poem -- kgp, Fri, December 03 2021, 4:46:20

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