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The
Yankees are rapidly finding out the benefits of the telephone. A newly made grandmamma, we
are told, was recently awakened by the bell at midnight, and told by her inexperienced
daughter, "Baby has the croup. What shall I do with it?" Grandmamma replied she
would call the family doctor, and would be there in a minute. Grandmamma woke the doctor,
and told him the terrible news. He in turn asked to be put in telephonic communication
with the anxious mamma. "Lift the child to the telephone, and let me hear it
cough," he commands. The child is lifted, and it coughs. "That's not the
croup," he declares, and declines to leave his house on such small matters. He
advises grandmamma also to stay in bed: and, all anxiety quieted, the trio settle down
happy for the night. The Lancet Nov. 29, 1879. Page
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