by Billy Kay
Scotland and Medicine
THERE IS AN old Scots saying that could not be more apt and to the point: “There’s nae remeid for stark deid” - the only thing there is not a cure for is death itself! Yet such was the repute of healers in Scottish society that in the ancient Galoshan mystery plays performed over hundreds of years and revived in a performance by friends of mine at Traquair House in the early 1980s, the Guid Doctor actually has the power to cheat death….