I don’t think acupuncture will help fix that.

I don't think acupuncture will help fix that.
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Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 25 May 2017: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth I don’t think acupuncture will help fix that., the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France. Copied into this book the twenty-fifth day of May, 2017. Finis.

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“I don’t think acupuncture will help fix that.”
Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France,
gallica.bnf.fr/m/ark:/12148/btv1b84524043/f70.item.

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