Excerpt from The Woman's Book, Vol. 1 of 2: Dealing Practically With the Modern Conditions of Home-Life, Self-Support, Education, Opportunities, and Every-Day Problems I am congratulating myself on not having a stretcher case' at any rate, when two men come in with one. Miss A. Quickly places screens round a bed, and a rubber sheet over the clean bed clothes. The woman is lifted on the bed, and her temperature, pulse, etc., taken. Her own clothes are soon removed, and a warm sponge-bath given and hair combed. These operations have effect ed a wonderful change in her appear ance, and she now looks a little more like a Caucasian, whereas, before the bath, she might have belonged to one of the darker races of mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.