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that are very real to him and vet that seem^ small + to the doctorslSt they £ him" % en take *¥ H o^l6 -to Tw«*» to him. For example, he gets a cold sometimes, -and science can *do nStfcnV •™&,:aV-? c desires Passionately a remedy^for toothache, and the doctors are cold and unsympathetic. He is a ■wOSF *? 1^" 66®. and no medical hand is stretched forth to aid him. He I ™ c*& d£ e mufit suffer in saence Ihe Medical Congress did not even mention these afflictions. It passed them over^ in contemr>tuous silence. Why, then, should he forget his colde, his corns, his toothache, and his seasjckness in order-to exult over the fact 1 that microbe of the 'sleeping sickness has been detected in the very act, although not vet in custQd.t, or'that Julius .Caesar:, and Nanoleon were" not actually epileptics. Why, he asks, is there this apathy, on the subject' of colds, smce "the accursed think ravages the earth"?
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 20 December 1913, Page 12
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161A SCRIBE'S REFLECTIONS Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 20 December 1913, Page 12
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