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".......because he had the weak pulse, the hoarse breathing, and the pale perspiration of a dying man..But his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning, to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera. He prescribed infusions of linden blossoms to calm the nerves and suggested a change of air so he could find consolation in distance."
Gabriel Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera