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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: He was a bright, intelligent, aged general, who examined me in the most scrupulous manner, and concluded that I had no…

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He was a bright, intelligent, aged general, who examined me in the most scrupulous manner, and concluded that I had no organic disease, but was suffering simply from a want of oxidation of the blood. ‘Air is all that you want,’ he said.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin describes the examination by a military doctor who diagnosed him with a lack of fresh air rather than an organic disease.

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