Patient laughs at monkey and cures himself. Monkey takes medicine and cuts capers as result — Mythoi

Motif

Patient laughs at monkey and cures himself. Monkey takes medicine and cuts capers as result.

Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Other lucky accidents. · Accidental healing. · view the constellation · filed as N641.1

Cited in the index

general Nouvelles Récréations No. 89.

Within the index

Filed under Patient laughs so at foolish diagnosis of sham physician that his abscess breaks and he gets well. She has been told to examine the floor around the patient's bed for signs of what he has been eating. She finds the patient surrounded with pillows: he has eaten too many pillows.

Filed beside it

Frog removed from queen's nose by telling such interesting story that she gives quick breath and dislodges him

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