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Candie Carrots vs. Deadly and Stinking Carrots

More from Gerard’s Herball. In 1597 there were candie carrots “soveraigne remedy against…poison” not to mention that you could drink water fixed up with the seeds in it to prevent “the strangurie” (which, regrettably, is difficulty peeing. Still, it would be considerably more entertaining to go to the doctor and say “I’ve got a touch [...]