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My Good Babushka

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Sat Apr 26, 2014, 07:06 AM Apr 2014

A mouse may scamper

A mouse may scamper across the back of a sheep and render it paralytic. If a mouse is shut in and starved within the trunk of a witch hazel tree, and branches of that tree are drawn across the afflicted sheep's back every day, the sheep will recover as the mouse perishes.
-14th century veterinarian medicine.

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