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by the afternoon looked cadaverized,
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like a person who had been wasting away
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from a long-term wasting illness.
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The breath would turn cold.
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The hands would look like dishwater hands.
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And very distressing, there would be a very severe cramping;
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terrible cramps, terrible abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting.
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And the blood itself--physicians who were
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trying to treat patients by bloodletting rapidly noticed
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that the blood itself, deprived of its liquid content,
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was transformed into a black tar that refused to circulate.
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This could lead to heart failure,