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  • For every pain, no matter where, they brand the patient with a red-hot iron (_kayya_); to relieve a person who has eaten too much fat, they will light a fire round him to melt it; to heal a wound they will plug up the nostrils of the sufferer, believing that certain scents are noxious to the sore; the pleasant scents being the most harmful.

    Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

  • No one with the same feelings as we could go so readily through the burning cure (_kayya_).

    Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

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