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The Man With The Broken Ear

CHAPTER X
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A new bath was given in the evening.

During the night, the body was enveloped in flannel, but kept constantly in the same steaming atmosphere.
On the morning of the 17th, after a third bath of an hour and a half, the general characteristics of the figure and the proportions of the body presented their natural aspect: one would have called it a sleeping man.

Five or six curious persons were admitted to see it, among others the colonel of the 23d.

In the presence of these witnesses, M.Nibor moved successively all the joints, and demonstrated that they had recovered their flexibility.

He gently kneaded the limbs, trunk and abdomen.


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