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English Tea
... trouble with ... teais that originally it was quite ... good drink.
So ... group of ... most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made ... complicated biological experiments to find ... way of spoiling it.
To ... eternal glory of ... British science their labour bore ... fruit. They suggested that if you don't drink it clear, or with ... lemon or ... rum and ... sugar, but pour ... few drops of ... cold milk into it, and no sugar at all, ... desired object is achieved. Once this refreshing, aromatic, oriental beverage was successfully transformed into ... colourless and tasteless gargling-water, it suddenly became ... national drink of ... Great Britain and ... Ireland – still retaining ... high-sounding title ... tea.
There are ... occasions when you must not refuse ... cup of ... tea, otherwise you are judged ...exotic and barbarous bird without ... hope of ever being able to take your place in ... civilised society.
If you are invited to ... English home at five o'clock in ... morning you get ... cup of ... tea. It is either brought by ... heartily smiling hostess or ... almost malevolently silent maid.
Then you have ... tea for ... breakfast; then you have ... tea at eleven o'clock in ... morning; then after... lunch; then you have ... tea for ... tea;then after ... supper; and again at eleven o’clock at ... night.
You definitely must not follow my example. I sleep at five o'clock in ... morning; I have .... coffee for ... breakfast; I drink ... innumerable cups of ... black coffee during ... day; I have ... most unorthodox and exotic teas even at ... tea-time.
... other day, for instance – I just mention it as ... terrifying example to show you how low some people can sink – I wanted ... cup of ... coffee and ... piece of ... cheese for ... tea. It was ... exceptionally hot day and my wife made some cold coffee and put it in ... refrigerator, where it froze and became one solid block. On ... other hand, she left ... cheese on ... kitchen table, where it melted. So I had ... piece of ... coffee and ... glass of ... cheese.
Insert articles before names of diseases if necessary.
1. Manson was in this horrible situation, really feeling the nightmare of every doctor. And all that he had done was to cure Alary of ... consumption. 2. The cold water sent ... spasm through the base of his spine, the stick fell from his hands. 3. She got kind of quiet, like she had ... headache. 4. "What's happened to your friend?" he said. I told him about ... influenza. 5. He is only fifty but the liver has stopped restoring itself, the precipitating factor is ... alcoholism. 6. I got ... pneumonia making a picture last January and I've been recuperating. 7. "I was called at my home," Barlett said, "and Dr. Cymbalist told me he suspected ... perforated ulcer." 8. I had heard of a man who had a slight fungus growth on his thumb and had become obsessed with the idea that it was ... cancer. 9. I made sure it was ... chill, Doctor. 10. She clung to him, face distorted and crimson. ... cough rocked her. 11. Old and young, talkative and taciturn, rich and poor, they all had two things in common, lice and ... dysentery. 12. After ... typhoid she was just skin and bone. 13. Yes, you had found ... diphtheria and ... typhoid, and, if I am right, there were some outstanding, like ... scarlet fever and ... smallpox, that you called ultramicroscopia, and which you were still hunting for, and others that you didn't even suspect. 14. She coughed less too, as ... pleurisy subsided but she grew tired in the divan bed though Bart had put a headrest to it to hold her pillows. 15. It probably accounts for some of ... flu you spoke of, but that is not too serious in itself. 16. Think of patients lying in that racket after a serious abdominal or running a temperature of a hundred and four with ... meningitis! 17. The morning after the bridge party Mrs. Van Hopper woke with ... sore throat and a temperature of a hundred and two. 18. Little Nancy has ... backache and they've cabled her to go home. 19. I developed ... blister on my thumb and had to quit. 20. Lucy knew, of course – and was aware that Vivian knew it too – that the possibility remained that ... osteogenic sarcome which Dr. Pearson had diagnosed might have metastasiged ahead of the amputation. 21. The trainer took a fussy interest in him when he came up with ... small bruise on his knee. 22. It looked precisely the place to provoke rather than cure ... nervous break-down. 23. The last woman who had undressed me had been my mother, when I was five, and I had ... measles. 24. She'd hurry to her room and plead ... toothache. But when the carriage came nearer, her flight was checked by her amazement. 25. Case was a forty-year old man admitted for ... appendicitis. 26. Would you agree with me, Dr. Seddons, that the diagnosis of death of ... coronary thrombosis seems fairly well established? 27. He had attended her when she had ... pleurisy, and it had always been the same. 28. At the beginning of the year Cooper went down with ... fever. 29. He had ... grippe and I figured that I probably won't see him again. 30. The medical history of this man shows that three years ago he suffered ... first coronary attack and then ... second attack earlier this year.
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