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 * 1) This man is a doctor.
 * 2) How many doctors are there here?
 * 3) Are there any Chinese doctors?
 * 4) I am not very well today.
 * 5) What is the matter with you?
 * 6) My head aches.
 * 7) Have you been sick?
 * 8) I have not.
 * 9) Have you anything else the matter?
 * 10) I have also the stomach-ache.
 * 11) This is not serious.
 * 12) Take a little medicine.
 * 13) What medicine ought I to take.
 * 14) Wait till I get back to the hospital,
 * 15) and I will send a man with some for you.
 * 16) This man has fever.
 * 17) I have fever and ague.
 * 18) Is your throat dry?
 * 19) It is, and very often so.
 * 20) Don't drink too much water.
 * 21) Take a little chicken broth.
 * 22) When the fever has gone it won't be dry.
 * 23) Does he cough?
 * 24) At times he does, at times he doesn't.
 * 25) Does he drink?
 * 26) I fancy he smokes opium.
 * 27) He may do so, (I can't say).
 * 28) He is a strong man.
 * 29) Has he taken the "stop-opium" pills?
 * 30) He says they are no use.
 * 31) How does he know if they are of use or not.
 * 32) His disease can't be cured.