Oddities... (Was RE: [Sca-cooks] Good News from Drakey

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Gorgeous Muiredach:
>>Thanks.  Taffy and I almost got thrown out of the Australian National
>>Library in Hysterics after finding a period haemaroid cure that involved
>>a brandy soaked flaming fig...  I do enjoy finding the little oddities
>>of medieval life...
>
>Oh shit!  I spewed out Coke all over my keyboard!  Thanks....

That's even better than the 18th-century cure for chronic drunkenness
which involves serving the afflicted person wine or ale full of live,
baby eels...

Adamantius

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