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We realize that we have left much unsaid, but I fear to go further. Like Burton in his "Anatomy of Melancholy," "I shall urge these cavilling and contumelious thoughts no further, least some physician deny me physic when I'm ill." In other words, I am well persuaded by physic and when my time comes, I want either my tranquillizer or my stimulant, but I want it administered by a doctor wise in medical lore.
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