There is some consensus that keratoconus, keratotorus, keratoglobus, and pellucid zone degeneration are related because these different conditions have been found to coexist in families.

The hydra wasn't the doozy? How could it not be the doozy? What could be doozier than that?

It was a horrible smell of corrupt flesh and mouldy bones, mingling with the sickly steam of from cauldrons in which the anatomized animals were seething down. None save those who have been so unfortunate as to venture upon the confines of a knacker's yard, can possibly conceive the horrible nausea produced by these blended effluvia: it was enough to make the strongest stomach heave and become sick.

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