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the use of poetry as an aid to healing has a long and intriguing history, across cultures and across ages. Since early times, spiritual healers have chanted poetry for the well-being of the tribe. In ancient Egypt, patients drank word-infused water that had been poured over the lines of a healing spell inscribed on a stone slab called a cippus. One of the earliest instances of theiotganised reading of poetry