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The horrible and nasty castor oil, ipecac and calomel, and the salts and senna, sulphur and molasses taken three mornings in succession and then missed three mornings, were worse than any sickness.
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Hoar shares a childhood memory of the unpleasantness of medicinal treatments he experienced.
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