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

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From: "Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius.magister at verizon.net>
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Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: Oddities... (Was RE: [Sca-cooks] Good News from Drakey


> 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
>
> --
> "No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes
> deserves to be called a scholar."
> -DONALD FOSTER
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