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"ref": "1911, Hampton's Magazine, volume 27, number 1, page 462",
"text": "[…] that you have induced a horrid phlegmatic condition with will soon require a liberal and generous humectant to keep the very membranes of your very entrails from desquamating, chipping off and blocking up all the pipes of your body.",
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},
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},
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