Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medication…

Leo Tolstoy
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Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2011). War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, p.1102, Vintage
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