Today In Nellie Bly History — Visiting the Dispensaries

New York World — Sunday, December 2, 1888

Nellie Bly Narrowly Escapes Having Her Tonsils Amputated

Treated as a Charity Patient in the Throat, Skin and Ear Infirmaries

She Joins the Throng of Poor Invalids and Finds Out How Free Medical Aid is Dispensed — One Brusque Old Doctor Probes Her Throat and Nose and Wants to Perform an Operation — A Young Physician Tells Her Never to Wash Her Face with Soap — The…