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cannonading of a whole regiment of
bottles, quite as much as he was tor-
mented by the disease. Their aim was
to get rid of the enemy—to get rid of
him at any rate. If they could turn out
the evil spirit of disease so as not to
turn out the spirit of the man at*the
same time, all the better. But they
considered themselves bound to storm the
strong-holds of the disease, and to drive
drive him out, at all events. Our doctor
seldom entered anybody’s house but his
own, unless disease had gone in at the
door, and he was summoned to turn him
out, when he made his appearance, in the
shortest possible space of time, with his