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You might enjoy the opening of the comic novel Three Men In A Boat, where the narrator reads a medical dictionary and finds he is suffering from every malady listed apart from- much to his annoyance- housemaid’s knee.

https://gutenberg.org/files/308/308-h/308-h.htm

Published 1889

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The doctor's prescription is probably applicable even to this day.

Food, bitter beer, exercise, early bedtimes and "stop stuffing your head with things you don't understand".

> I followed the directions, with the happy result—speaking for myself—that my life was preserved, and is still going on.

I read the book as part of my English - II in school, but no part stuck to me as much as the Liver cure for children.

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