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Slowly and carefully--for he was still limp from his battle with pneumonia, resultant from the prolonged use of a lung-motor in the inexperienced hands of excited people--two nurses had trundled young Merrick up to the well-appointed solarium.
-"It won't hurt him a bit," Doctor Watson had said, "and there is at least the suspicion of a breeze upstairs."