Incantation against toothache
‘Lift me up and amongst the teeth and the gums let me dwell.’
Our ancestors had not quite stumbled upon the method to treat toothache. Its treatment was beer and oil mixed together and to recite this incantation three times to put medecine on the tooth. Trace back and find from the most ecstatic grandeur to the most trivial of events, a most powerful and elegant method called science has made them accessible to human understanding.
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