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An old enslaved man dies

Surgeon’s journal

N. 23

The 23rd of this month an elderly male slave complained to me about chokes on his chest. He coughed but did not release any phlegm and continued to feel congested. I laid geroon with the resin plaster and I also gave him some of the decoction (prescription 8). I often let him lick of the eclegma (prescription 11), but he still did not release phlegm. As he also did not eat, he died on the 28th.