THE SCENE: This medical “fact” could be useful for people who are seeking to resolve disputes between different parts of their body.
THE TEXT: We divide the body into four parts: head, stomach, belly, and bladder. The head is an empire, the stomach a kingdom, the belly a hovel, but the bladder is a hired hand.
– The Wisdom of the Art of Medicine, 6th Century AD
“The fighting was so fierce that the gutters of every street ran with blood. So many men lay dead that the waters of the Thames turned the colour of blood.” […]
“When she is deprived of her full light you will notice that all things lose their fullness. But when she has attained her complete roundness, you will find that bones are full of marrow, head of brains, and other things of sap.” […]
“When he was alive he had lacked a brain, and now that he was dead he lacked a heart, for they ripped it from his entrails and impaled it on a stake, swollen as it was with fraud and evil.” […]
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