One Hundred Years of Solitude

forced to use more drastic
methods. She put some
orange juice and rhubarb into
a pan that she left in the dew
all night and she gave her the
dose the following day on an
empty stomach. Although no
one had told her that it was
the specific remedy for the
vice of eating earth, she
thought that any bitter
substance in an empty
stomach would have to make
the liver react. Rebeca was so