"Gestern hat er noch mit uns gebadet und fröhlich gespeist, und heute morgen wurde derselbe tot aufgefunden. Fragst du nach der Ursache seines so plötzlichen Ablebens: er sah im Traum den Arzt Hermokrates."
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