Daniel would love this, and Jack would approve of Horemwia

[fignewton]

This link leads to the British museum's translation of an ostracon that records the excuses for absence of Egyptian workers during one year of Ramses II's reign.

See Horemwia, month 2 of winter, day 8

...There are actually a lot of that specific explanation.

:) :) :)

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[aelfgyfu_mead]

No, you're probably right! Leeches! They're used throughout the Middle Ages, but also much earlier—and again today, because they're actually quite useful in some circumstances, I understand.

And the man of the house would no doubt have to be home while a doctor used leeches on his wife or daughter. . . .