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Be thankful for pills

The next time your doctor prescribes a pill for what ails you, be thankful you weren't born a few hundred years earlier. Here are some historical treatments for common maladies, according to Nancy Butcher, author of “The Strange Case of the Walking Corpse”:

Stroke – inhale smoke from a burning pine tree

Goiter (enlarged thyroid) – touch a hanged man's hand

Warts – rub with piece of meat, then bury meat

Eye problems – bathe eyes with rainwater collected in June before sunrise or make ointment from scrapings of a 14th-century tomb

Toothaches – drive nail into hurtful tooth, extract bloody nail and hammer into tree; to prevent returning tooth pain, wear a dead mole around neck.

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