Perhaps the strangest "cure" for rheumatism is that which is to be found in the "Compleat Housewife, or Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion'"— a work published in 1742: "Let the party take of the finest glazed gunpowder as much as a large thimble may hold; wet it in a spoon with milk from the cow, and drink a good half pint of warm milk after it; be covered warm in bed and sweat; give it fasting about seven in the morning, and take this nine or ten mornings together."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 266, 9 November 1935, Page 14 (Supplement)
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