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The Story of Uncle Toby

There is a famous story from the neurologist oliver sax about a man that he calls uncle toby. He suspecteda hypotyrodism as a possible cause of this strange behavior, and proposed to treat hem withwi hir te horman. So he's given the drug, and he wake ups, and he doesn't remember the seven years that were past. But the story actually is is not sad ini end, because uncle toby had a cancer, a small saldle and cancer, and the and the cancer woke up with him and then killed him in a few months.

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