An English Patient in a German Hospital

was carried out minus gloves or previous sterilisation. On Friday morning, however, an operation was necessary, and the patient was removed to an outside hospital. The heart was not sounded before the anaesthetic?ether?was givenThe ether was administered by nurses entirelyAfter the operation, but later in the day, tea with no sugar or milk was given, and a little soup ^aS taken by the patient before sleeping for the nigW' The next day there was Zweibach bread, margarine and tea with milk for breakfast, and for lunch, soupminced meat and potatoes, and lastly stewed plunis* Dinner?or supper, as it is called in Germany-^ concluded the day's menu. It consisted of pickle cucumber, German sausage, and raw ham served chunks of bread and margarine. The patient e pressed a desire for eggs, and, although a first-claSS patient in a private ward, she was told there