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"ref": "1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, page 98",
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"text": "\"I applied,” says he in his first memoir, “a large plate of copper upon the pit of the stomach and a ring of the same metal around each limb: and in three or four minutes the chokings, palpitations, and vomitings ceased.",
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},
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"ref": "1972, Burton M. Atkins, Henry R. Glick, Prisons, Protest, and Politics, page 52",
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},
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