Item 54: Friedrich Meier diary, 18 August 1914-August 1915 - Page 128
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<p>[Page 128]</p><p>faster and faster and off I was! It all lasted just seconds. The first thing I noticed when I came to was that my mouth was full of saliva and that I seemed to be tied fast, but after spitting a few times, I began to feel better. When I first managed to read the clock it was 11.30am, so I had been anaesthesised for 2 ½ hours. Surgery took more than an hour, as I was told later on, and was done by the head physician, Lieutenant-Colonel Crawford Robertson, and Captain MacInnes. They screwed a steel plate onto my bone (see drawing). [sketch of a steel plate and a screw with caption] steel plate, blue. 3 or 4 screws.</p><p>Once fully awake, I felt like newborn. My arm was tightly splinted and lay in a sling on a pillow. I was not in a great deal of pain, and</p>