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Letter: Letter

Published 26 September 1998

From Stan Hayward

A common remedy I’ve read of in the Caribbean, for when one gets stung by
jellyfish and the like, is to urinate on it—the wound, that is, not the
jellyfish.

stan@hccat.demon.co.uk

Issue no. 2153 published 26 September 1998

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