He had
difficulty in limping even a short distance to open a window."
Kennedy uncorked a bottle and the subtle odor of oranges mingled
with ether stole through the room.
"Some one here will recognize that odour immediately. It is the
new orange-essence vapour anesthetic, a mixture of essence of
orange with ether and chloroform. The odour hidden by the orange
which lingered in the laboratory, Mr. Winslow and Mr. Strong, was
not isoprene, but really ether.
"I am letting some of the odour escape here because in this very
laboratory it was that the thing took place, and it is one of the
well-known principles of psychology that odours are powerfully
suggestive. In this case the odour now must suggest the terrible
scene of the other night to some one before me. More than that, I
have to tell that person that the blood transfusion did not and
could not save him. His illness is due to a condition that is
incurable and cannot be altered by transfusion of new blood. That
person is just as doomed to-day as he was before he committed--"
A figure was groping blindly about.
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