Jag har tydligen haft en namne i Wales :o
Bendros kick ass :birp §e
Från: A Glimpse of Welsh Life and Character, FOLKLORE AND GHOST STORIES.
"Ho! Ho!" he would say, "I can see plain, I'll have to send thee to Doctor y Bendro?"
"Who is Doctor y Bendro?" I asked.
"Don't you know? - not know Doctor y Bendro? Why, he was a clever doctor for mad people."
Then he told me that the doctor lived in Anglesea, and took upon himself to cure lunatics. At the end of his house he had a large room filled with filthy water that had a vile smell. The doctor - so they said - used to completely strip his patient and place him in this pool rather over knee-deep. Some he would place in the water waist-high, others deeper still, and each patient was tied fast to a pole. At this stage the only nourishment allowed was turnip broth, or water gruel, of which three tablespoonfuls were given once in forty-eight hours. The patients suffered so intensely from hunger, cold, and the terrible smell of the water, that they either recovered their memory or senses under the operation. Gwion the empty head, as they called him, was thus treated for a fortnight by Doctor y Bendro, and went home cured.
Jag har tydligen haft en namne i Wales :o
Bendros kick ass :birp §e
Från: A Glimpse of Welsh Life and Character, FOLKLORE AND GHOST STORIES.
"Ho! Ho!" he would say, "I can see plain, I'll have to send thee to Doctor y Bendro?"
"Who is Doctor y Bendro?" I asked.
"Don't you know? - not know Doctor y Bendro? Why, he was a clever doctor for mad people."
Then he told me that the doctor lived in Anglesea, and took upon himself to cure lunatics. At the end of his house he had a large room filled with filthy water that had a vile smell. The doctor - so they said - used to completely strip his patient and place him in this pool rather over knee-deep. Some he would place in the water waist-high, others deeper still, and each patient was tied fast to a pole. At this stage the only nourishment allowed was turnip broth, or water gruel, of which three tablespoonfuls were given once in forty-eight hours. The patients suffered so intensely from hunger, cold, and the terrible smell of the water, that they either recovered their memory or senses under the operation. Gwion the empty head, as they called him, was thus treated for a fortnight by Doctor y Bendro, and went home cured.
