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How to Read the Marks on Your Face
The law inflicted cuts and brands so that people carried a visible criminal record for the rest of their lives. People learned the tell tale scars of venereal diseases, such as the flattened nose associated with syphilis. The simple fact of a wart on a woman's nose becoming a story she is a witch became people recoiling or even punishing her as one. A royalist welshman named aris evans covered his face with red cloth in public because he believed it could cure him of an evil disease called scrofula which was most characterized by ulcerous swellings on the neck. Now known as the king’s bad side, this form of tuberculosis has become
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