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From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)

It being fast-day, I stayed at home all day long to set things to
rights in my chamber, by taking out all my books and putting my
chamber in the same condition it was before the plague.  But in
the morning, doing of it and knowcking up a nail, I did bruise my
left thumb, so as broke a great deal of my flesh off, that it hung
by a little.  It was a sight frighted my wife---but I put some
balsam of Mrs. Turners to it, and though in great pain, yet went
on with my business...
		-- Pepys' Diary, 7 Feb. 1666

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