Vulgar words in Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing (Page 1)
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Loathsome cobbler,... dingy collier,... filthy sow (_scrofa stercorata_),... perfidious boar,... envious crocodile,... malodorous drudge,... wounded basilisk,... rust-colored asp,... swollen toad,... entangled spider,... lousy swineherd (_porcarie pedicose_),... lowest of the low,... cudgelled ass," etc.
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The following is given as a cure for the sting of the scorpion: "The patient is to sit on an ass, with his face to the tail of the animal, by which the pain will be transmitted from the man to the beast."
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A patient ass stood near a house, and a family of not much more rational animals was grouped around it.