In Rome in the year 208, Quintus Serenus Sammonicus wrote ‘Liber medecinalis,’ a book in which he revealed his discoveries in the arts of healing.
Among other remedies, this physician to two emperors, poet and owner of the best library of his time, proposed an infallible way to avoid tertian fever and deep death at bay: by hanging a word across your chest day and night.
The word was ‘Abracadabra,’ which in ancient Hebrew meant and still means, ‘Give your fire until the last of your days.’
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