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health and medicine
Going to the doctors isn,t usually a fun day out. First you sit in the waiting room while people sneeze on the back of your head . . .
Then you’re poked and prodded by the doc, who peers in your ears and up your nose with one of those funny torch things.
Finally, it is decided that the best way to get the saucepan off your head is to smear your noggin with butter and get two people to pull your legs and two to pull the saucepan.
It’s hardly relaxing.
But if you think you’ve got it bad, just wait till you hear this . . .
If anyone´s planning on going fishing then I have some worms in my leg you can have.
I´m pretty sure I´m meant to have five fingers.
Ancient Egyptians had plenty of reasons to visit a doc: from natural diseases and worms which laid eggs in their legs, to nasty accidents or run-ins with dangerous animals like hippos, crocodiles and scorpions.
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