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`` The point of view hinted at by the last speaker is correct , '' he said . `` I can corroborate it to a small extent . This morning I was confined to my bed with the beginnings of a bad influenzal cold . At midday I developed the Blue Disease , and now I am as well as I have ever been in the whole of my life . I attribute my cure to the Blue Disease . '' Scarcely had he taken his seat again when a grave scholarly man arose in the gallery . `` Gentlemen , '' he said , `` I come from Birmingham ; and it is a city of miracles .