Detail of the center panel of The Garden of Earthly Delights triptych, by Hieronymous Bosch, c. 1500. © Prado, Madrid / Bridgeman Images.

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Volume IX, Number 4 | fall 2016

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Miscellany

A Babylonian medical handbook dating to 1700 BC offers a renal diagnostic that reads, “If his urine is like ass urine, that man suffers from ‘discharge.’” Other alarming symptoms of discharge: if his urine is “like beer dregs,” “like wine dregs,” or “like clear paint.”

There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.

- Karl Marx, 1860

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