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[page 727] Ques. As to this matter of discipline, do you not know that you had a right to give any order to your attendants that you chose to give, that was not contrary to the order given by your superior officers. Ans. I could not do it, there would be order contrary. Ques. Did you ever give an order to an attendant under you to do a duty, and then have the superintendent override that order. Ans. I never gave any order contrary to his wishes. I knew what his wishes were. Ques. You assumed that his wishes were that they should not perform their duties, and therefore did not give any orders. Ans. An attendant went away at one time. Dr. Harlow, Dr. Sanborn and I were in the public office; said Dr. Harlow I never knew a patient to complain of that attendant. Said I, you may think she is a good attendant, but I never went into her ward half a dozen times in my life, when she was there, she was in her room. I complained to him once of gross negligence of patients on her part, told him she was not in her hall. He said they are all so. Said I very well, I know that. Ques. So that the most violent case of remonstrance. Ans. It merely illustrates that I could not get at anything when the doctor was satisfied.