#useful_excerpt "......., I got down the book, and read all I came to read, and then in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves, and began to indolently study diseases , generally. I forget which was the first distemper. I plunged into some fearful, divastating scourge, I know -- and, before I had glanced half down the list of premonitory symptoms, it was brone in upon me that I had fairly got it...... "
▪️In an unthinking moment : when I wasn't paying much attention to what I was doing.
▪️It was brone in upon me that I had fairly got it : I realized that I was certainly suffering from that disease.
