Apply directly to the forehead: Holmes, Nana, and hennapecia

Abstract

Apply directly to the forehead: Holmes, Nana, and hennapeciaThere is nothing men will not do, there is nothing they have not done, to recover their health . . . They have submitted to be half-drowned in water, and half-choked with gases, to be buried up to their chins in earth, to be seared with hot irons like galley-slaves, to be crimped with knives, like cod-fish, to have needles thrust into their flesh, and bonfires kindled on their skin, to swallow all sorts of abominations, and to pay for all this, as if to be singed and scalded were costly privilege, as if blisters were a blessing, and leeches were a luxury.