Family members and other individuals could offer medical and legal aid, at least prior to the foundation of sickrooms and the nomination of public advocates.
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Gone are the confines of the castle, bedroom, orsickroom: the chase now encompasses sublime landscapes, and is carried out with fevered energy.
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Often, the decisive scene takes place at those highly popular evangelical locales, thesickroomand the deathbed.
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We also have to value the input of those who work the wards and inhabit the sickrooms.
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For weeks before that event her time was chiefly spent in thesickroom.
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Plagued by throat cancer, he followed the retrial from hissickroom.
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His brother rushed to hissickroomimmediately, but was barred from entering, being physically restrained on three occasions.
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Asickroomhas been established to meet any emergency and administer first aid to the students.
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Thesickroomwas her space.
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