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A causa de alguno de sus servicios en las calles mi madre contrajo el nanaua, la enfermedad más vergonzosa y revulsiva.
From some one of her straddlings, she contracted the nanáua, the disease of uttermost shame and revulsion.
Era posible que en tiempos del doctor Lysons las virtudes emolientes o revulsivas del hermodactylus tuberosis justificaran su presencia en las manos de un D. D., pero no se podía estar seguro y esto, a falta de mejor cosa por el momento, tenía preocupado a Marrast.
It was possible that in the days of Dr. Lysons the emollient or revulsive properties of the Hermodactylus tuberosis justified its presence in the hands of a D.C.L., M.D., but one could not be sure, and that, for lack of anything better at the moment, kept Marrast preoccupied.
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