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Da ich den Sanitätsrat aber einmal gezwungen hatte, seine ordinäre Annahme, ich sei »schulkrank«, fallenzulassen, so wußte er nichts Besseres, als daß ich die Grippe haben müsse, und um diese Bestimmung aufrechterhalten zu können, verlangte er, daß ich Hustenreiz verspürte, und behauptete, daß meine Mandeln geschwollen seien, was ebensowenig der Fall war.
The inflammation of the respiratory tract was something I had not thought of, and so had not included in my performance. But once I had forced the doctor to drop his theory of 'school sickness', he had to fall back on grippe, and to that end had to assume that my throat was inflamed and my tonsils swollen, which was just as little the case.
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