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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 pillowsInsane man accidentally cured by blow on headStinging of buttocks as cure for cough. Patient applies stinging medicine and makes himself sore. He represses his cough to keep from hurting his hindquarters and is finally curedCure by fall which causes bleedingLost memory recovered in battleMan thinks to end life by drinking poisonous water, but it cures himKing accidentally cured by doctor's ruse and excuses pretended inability to cure him

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