Showing posts with label why does it hurt?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label why does it hurt?. Show all posts

Saturday, July 6, 2013

How to Cure a Headache, 9th century

Ninth-century headache?
St. Gall 904 (ca. 850)

"Headaches you will enchant: take some earth, touch your breast three times and say: My head hurts, why does it hurt? It does not hurt." 
Pseudo-Pliny (9th century)
Good old denial: it's better than ibuprofen.