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Show Nurses Dread Lightning. Of all people who aro glad when the season of thunderstorms Is past, none aro more thankful than professional nurses. "It Isn't thnt wo are so afraid of lightning ourselves," said a hospital nurse, "but It has a harmful effect on our patients. Most sick people havo an unroasonlng fear of lightning. In capes of extreme, weakness or nervousness nerv-ousness a dozen flashes of blinding lightning reduces tho patient tq such a statu of piostratlon that It takes extraordinary ex-traordinary efforts on tho part of tho nurse to bring him around. If ono sick person requires all that extra attention at-tention lu a thunderstorm, Just Imagine Imag-ine tho predicament of tho uurso who has a wholo ward full of them on her hands," |