Curing a Cold

A Story

by Mark Twain
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The entertaining value aside, remedies are probably par for nineteenth-century culture, no more better or worse than pharmaceutical remedies that kill patients today.

ra paul replied on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 08:20am

Nothing has changed--a trip to any broad-minded California grocery will reveal a host of remedies, herbs, palliatives, and spiritual balms to ease the common cold, yet none are as funny as Twains'.

Paul d'Orléans replied on Fri, 01/18/2013 - 01:26pm
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