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Similarly, complete healing was described after eight or ten days' treatment in a woman that had her face covered with a Ringworme rooted, as though she had a visor on her face, and a captain's son was cured of the king's euill (scrofula)

In some ways, its very clear that pipe-weed is not meant as an obvious parallel for a real-world substance in the Lord of the Rings series

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24) in the New England Journal of Medicine found that smoking takes at least 10 years off a person's life
