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Patients, heal yourselves

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19940911
Author:LIZ HUNT

". . . Have some strong beef tea made ready to give her as soon as the fever goes down. She can have the grapes now, and beef essence - and soda water and milk, and you'd better get in a bottle of brandy. The best brandy. Cheap brandy is worse than poison."

From The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit

GETTING better was once an important part of being ill. Convalescence - from the Latin valescere meaning "to grow strong" - was accepted by doctors and patients from the earliest times as a vital period of recovery following an acute illness, injury or surgery.

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