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have had strength eneough left to bayonet a German sausage – A couple of days after this, I got pains in the head – One of the chaps called the doctor in to have a look at me – He insisted upon me being taken to the hospital – (Pyrexia) (Pyrexia I knew was appertaining? to heat.)

I tried to tell him that I would be right where I was, but he explained that as it was so little trouble to have me taken to hospital – where I should have a bed to sleep on and a good rest – there was no necessity for me to lay on the ground in the heat

I was taken then to the Palace Hospital No 2 General Hospital, Heliopolis – When admitted I had a temperature of 102.8 – two days later my temperature was normal – I was then transfered the Luna Park hospital – Four days later I was discharged –

Of course the time I was in Egypt is during the very hottest part of the year – So little was the matter with me – that I thought – if I write home and say that I have been admitted into hospital suffering from slight heat-stroke or Pyrexia – the knowledge that I had been admitted to hospital would cause you to magnify my little ill – and so cause unnecessary worry. I have a bit of a cold in the head now – but taken

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