Concerning Sprees

1916

Dr. Allan Hoben, of the University of Chicago, in his address here to the Teachers' Association, said that when "a person gets so that he doesn't crave to go on a spree, he is getting old." Therefore, when the "spree" fever ceases it is a sign that you are Oslerized and have on hand all the nails necessary for the coffin and your only work left is to construct your coffin. — East St. Louis Journal.


Oslerized (in case the word isn't familiar)

An old dog, so old that his blood had ceased to circulate and was suffering from a tubercular running sore in his head, was "Oslerized" yesterday after it had been pronounced that his usefulness was a thing of the past. — From 1906.