Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — Inexperienced. [ARTICLE]

Inexperienced.

There is a pretty story told of a young physician of Washington who was connected at one time with the Emergency Hospital; it has caused many a smile at his expense. He had not been long stationed at the hospital when a woman was brought in suffering from a severe scalpwound. The blood were fast dyeing her golden curls a rusty red, and the doctor was engaged in hastily clipping her hair, when his patient exclaimed, “Oh, Doctor, don’t!” Thinking he might have hurt her. he said, “Oh, never mind; that’s all right!” “No, it’s not,” responded the lady, with some wrath, “for you are cutting my wig!”