Medival English physicians use ritual cures and psalms
Monastic and Jewish physicians blended Byzantine and folk remedies with Christian ceremony. While preparing mixtures the patient recited psalms and prayers, sometimes drinking draft from a church bell as a priest concluded with prayer. Dr. Creighton notes hysteria in medieval illness may have justified such ceremony. The era's doctors faced fees and criticism for greed.
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England
Creighton
London Spectator
Giant Bahama tree with cotton-filled roots used as stables
The Bahama inland tree grows roots towering fifteen to twenty feet above ground and spreading underground. Ball-like silky cotton clusters cover the trunk, valued for pillow stuffing. The root spaces form large cavities capable of sheltering a family, but natives have not used them as houses, instead using them as horse stables.
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Bahama
Envious friend’s test of fortune ends in mock firing scene
A tale recalls General Lefevre duke of Dant gi born to a peasant’s cot and rising through battle honors. A youth from his circle visits, envying the duke’s dignities and riches. The duke offers to sell them at the price paid and arranges a mock firing drill in his garden to prove the cost.
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Lefevre
Dantgi
Altered Circumstances Lead to Ultimatum
A threatening ultimatum declares if a target is not shot within thirty minutes all possessions will transfer to the speaker. The ominous message centers on immediate violence and coercion.
An Arab In the Rain
An analyst notes that rain unsettles those unused to it and recalls a tale of an Arab drenched in Sicily who fled back to the desert. The man, once a servant to a European, abandoned good wages and pleaded for passage home after fearing the weather.
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Sahara
Complex life boosts vitality through sport and struggle
The London Chronicle notes that rising life complexity and expenses accompany longevity and disease, yet intellectual stimulation remains key. It argues sport sustains endurance, competition masks injury, and self forgetfulness yields renewed vigor and life.
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London Chronicle
Cess
Pew
Pew Life
Noted Youth Brags of Trouble in Club House
A young fellow in the club house boasts he gets into more trouble than any man in the state. An elderly party questions his marriage, while others react to the claim in a Louisville Courier Journal style exchange.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
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