Three bells tingled all day long, and the only thing that saved Thomas from the "sickbay" was the fact that the bar closed at eleven.
"The Voice in the Fog"
Harold MacGrath
The special brand of craziness in Wellmouth that season was collecting "antiques," the same being busted chairs and invalid bureaus and sofys that your great grandmarm got ashamed of and sent to the sickbay a thousand year ago.
"Cape Cod Stories The Old Home House"
Joseph C. Lincoln