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The city of Limerick, the siege of which was begun under his majesty king William himself, the year after I went into the armyвБ†вАФlies, anвАЩ please your honours, in the middle of a devilish wet, swampy country.вБ†вАФвАЩTis quite surrounded, said my uncle Toby, with the Shannon, and is, by its situation, one of the strongest fortified places in Ireland.вБ†вЄЇвБ† + 

I think this is a new fashion, quoth Dr.¬†Slop, of beginning a medical lecture.вБ†вАФвАЩTis all true, answered Trim.вБ†вАФThen I wish the faculty would follow the cut of it, said Yorick.вБ†вАФвАЩTis all cut through, anвАЩ please your reverence, said the corporal, with drains and bogs; and besides, there was such a quantity of rain fell during the siege, the whole country was like a puddle,вБ†вАФвАЩtwas that, and nothing else, which brought on the flux, and which had like to have killed both his honour and myself; now there was no such thing, after the first ten days, continued the corporal, for a soldier to lie dry in his tent, without cutting a ditch round it, to draw off the water;вБ†вАФnor was that enough, for those who could afford it, as his honour could, without setting fire every night to a pewter dish full of brandy, which took off the damp of the air, and made the inside of the tent as warm as a stove.вБ†вЄї + 

And what conclusion dost thou draw, corporal Trim, cried my father, from all these premises? + 

I infer, anвАЩ please your worship, replied Trim, that the radical moisture is nothing in the world but ditch-waterвБ†вАФand that the radical heat, of those who can go to the expense of it, is burnt brandy,вБ†вАФthe radical heat and moisture of a private man, anвАЩ please your honour, is nothing but ditch-waterвБ†вАФand a dram of genevaвБ†вЄЇвБ†and give us but enough of it, with a pipe of tobacco, to give us spirits, and drive away the vapoursвБ†вАФwe know not what it is to fear death. + 

I am at a loss, Captain Shandy, quoth Dr.¬†Slop, to determine in which branch of learning your servant shines most, whether in physiology or divinity.вБ†вАФSlop had not forgot TrimвАЩs comment upon the sermon.вБ†вАФ + 

It is but an hour ago, replied Yorick, since the corporal was examined in the latter, and passвАЩd muster with great honour.вБ†вЄЇвБ† + 

The radical heat and moisture, quoth Dr.¬†Slop, turning to my father, you must know, is the basis and foundation of our beingвБ†вАФas the root of a tree is the source and principle of its vegetation.вБ†вАФIt is inherent in the seeds of all animals, and may be preserved sundry ways, but principally in my opinion by consubstantials, impriments, and occludents.вБ†вЄЇвБ†Now this poor fellow, continued Dr.¬†Slop, pointing to the corporal, has had the misfortune to have heard some superficial empiric discourse upon this nice point.вБ†вЄЇвБ†That he has,вБ†вАФsaid my father.вБ†вЄЇвБ†Very likely, said my uncle.вБ†вАФIвАЩm sure of itвБ†вАФquoth Yorick.вБ†вЄЇвБ† + 