192 



KNOWLEDGE & SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



[August, 1904. 



tion would have been easy enough had we dared to chloroform 

 our patient, but we had no desire to attempt such a thing. 

 Several days had elapsed and the arm was swollen]] and angry. 



for that tie could better grapple with. For this purpose we 

 first tried naphtha, but that did not do ; ho disliked the taste 

 of it so much that I could not bring myself to force it on him. 



The Fram in Winter Quarters. 



CaITAIN S\EKl)Rll'. 



Start for the Journey.— Spring, 1901. 



Inexperienced as we were we should probably torture poor | We had things that tasted considerably better. I sent for a 

 ( )lsen most horribly before we got his arm info place again. liottle of the very best cognac, and began to give hnn dram 

 I therefore decided to make him thoroughly drunk— the effects I after dram. But it really was too much to expect hnn to drmk 



