"I started the anesthesia with the prescribed amount of chloroform and the patient went under quickly. He flinched when the scalpel pricked him and the doctor snapped, "Encore !" I poured more chloroform on the cone but he still seemed partly conscious.
Echinelle : - Encore !
Me : - I give him enough to knock a horse out.
Echinelle : - Encore !
(Suddenly, the patient stopped breathing)
Me : - He's gone, Doc.
Echinelle : - Monsieur Raoul, you have killed him.
Me : - You kept saying encore.
Echinelle : - Sssh! He would have died anyway."
Raoul Walsh, Each man in his time (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974, p 43)
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