Others were insatiable for morphine or opium.

A chief woman had her foot amputated under chloroform.

"Let me see my foot! Why does it not hurt ?" she cried.

"It hurt so badly before I went to sleep." Siteoni, whose name has been already mentioned, had his shoulder-blade excised, lay the longest of any, perhaps behaved the worst, and was on all these grounds the favourite.

At times he was furiously irritable, and would rail upon his family and rise in bed until he swooned with pain.