Episode 151: Sick to Death
The History of English Podcast
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Henry's Legs Still Need a Wheelchair
This plaster is good for wounds both new and old, for bruises and for aches. It does mundify or cleanse ulcers and old sores without pain,. Good both for fistulas and for causes that be ulcerate. Henry's legs continued to bother him for the rest of his life. His physicians designed an early type of wheelchair which allowed him to be moved around with greater ease. The original version in the English of the 16th century was called Tec hartes suet pharah onces.
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