A physician asks a nurse how his patient is: she replies that he is rambling and delirious but the last sensible thing he uttered was an insulting remark about the doctor. Wood engraving, 1891.

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1891
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14294i
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view A physician asks a nurse how his patient is: she replies that he is rambling and delirious but the last sensible thing he uttered was an insulting remark about the doctor. Wood engraving, 1891.

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A physician asks a nurse how his patient is: she replies that he is rambling and delirious but the last sensible thing he uttered was an insulting remark about the doctor. Wood engraving, 1891. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Caption reads: '(Things one would rather have expressed differently.) Doctor. "How is the patient this morning?" Nurse. "Well - he has been wandering a good deal in his mind. Early this morning I heard him say 'What an old woman that doctor is!' - and I think that was about the last really rational remark he made."'

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[London], 1891.

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1 print : wood engraving ; border 20.2 x 12 cm

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A lucid interval.

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Wellcome Collection 14294i

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