Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1885 — Medical Advice by Telephone. [ARTICLE]

Medical Advice by Telephone.

Husband.—My wife has a severe pain in the back of her neck, and complains of a sort of soreness in thestomach. Physician.—She has n alarial colic. Husband.—What shall 1 do for her? [The girl at the ‘central’ switches off to a machinist talking to a saw-mill man.] Machinist to Husband—l think she is covered with scales inside, about an inch thick. Let her c ol down dur ing the night and before she fires up in the morning, take a hammer and pound her thoroughly all over, and then take a hose and hitch it to the fireplug and, wash her out.’ Husband has no further need of this doctor—Medical Journal