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Source: Philadelphia Record Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Trained Nurse’s Testimony” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Date of publication: 12 September 1901 Volume number: none Issue number: 10784 Pagination: 1 |
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| “Trained Nurse’s Testimony.” Philadelphia Record 12 Sept. 1901 n10784: p. 1. |
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| Margaret Morris; McKinley nurses; William McKinley (medical care); William McKinley (activity, conversations, etc. during recovery). |
| Named persons |
| Mary D. Barnes; William McKinley; George C. Menzies; Margaret Morris [first name wrong below]. |
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Trained Nurse’s Testimony
President, in Hospital, Spoke of Czolgosz as “The Poor Fellow.”
Tarrytown, N. Y., Sept. 11.—George C. Menzies,
of Greenburg [sic], has received a letter from Miss Marguerite Morris, a trained
nurse, who was sent to Buffalo as a delegate from St. Luke’s Hospital, New York.
Miss Morris happened to be in the Emergency Hospital when President McKinley
was brought in after being shot. She says:
“I was in attendance to the President while he
was being operated upon in the hospital. I gave him the first hypodermic injection
of strychnine and morphine. He did not want to take it, for he did not feel
faint. He said ‘I feel good.’ He was brought in and laid on the operating table
and was entirely conscious all the time until the anesthetic was given. Mrs.
Barnes and I prepared the operating room for him.
“The President lay there quietly, talking very
little[.] He repeated a few times, ‘the poor fellow! he [sic] could not have
known what he was doing,’ meaning that nobody could have hated him bad enough
to shoot him.”