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 — Mythoi

Motif

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.

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

Cited in the index

general *Wesselski Mönchslatein 19 No. 13, Theorie 163.

Within the index

Filed under Accidental healing.

2 finer motifs beneath it

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Filed beside it

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Carried in tale types

Physician in Spite of Himself · ATU 1641B 2 recorded variants
The Student as Healer · ATU 1845 1 recorded variant

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