"That will never do," said I; "nurse, take it off." "No, indeed," she answered, "I shall never interfere with the doctor." So I took it off myself, and sent for another doctor, who was said to know more of surgery.

He expressed great surprise that the first physician called should have put on so severe a bandage.

"That," said he, "would do for a grown man, but ten days of it on a child would make him a cripple." However, he did nearly the same thing, only fastening it round the hand instead of the wrist.

I soon saw that the ends of the fingers were all purple, and that to leave that on ten days would be as dangerous as the first.

So I took that off.
"What a woman!" exclaimed the nurse.