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Florence Nightingale Quotes: The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
         

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.


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