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" The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs. "
Thomas Sydenham
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" Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout. "
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