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From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)

To the Crowne tavern behind the Exchange by appointment, and there
met the first meeing of Gresham College since the plague.  Dr.
Goddard did fill us with talk in defence of his and his
fellow-physicians' going out of town in the plague-time; saying that
their perticular patients were most gone out of town, and they left
at liberty---and a great deal more, etc.

But what, among other fine discourse, pleased me most, was Sir G.
Ent about Respiration; that it is not to this day known or concluded
on among physicians, nor to be done either, how that action is
managed by nature or for what use it is.
		-- Pepys' Diary, 22 Jan. 1666

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