ROASTED TOAD AS MEDICINE
Strange instances of the pcrsistent_ survival o? bizarre ami purely superstitious medieval folk medicines were related to the British MHvd A sedation Conference at Cardiff by Dr ih Boland William* 1 hern was still the fantastic employ:wm o: “drugs” of animal origin. Bears’ grease, once a popular remedy, was not now so fashionable, but. goose grease was still a favourite inunction for wheezing chests and sore throats. Spiders’ web was used to-day, too, as a styptic for cuts, and salt bacon was quite a common dressing for boils and whitlows. “Wide women” still existed in Wales who advised a litual in which some email animal, such as a toad, was incinerated, pulverised, and administered to the patient, in food or drink. Only a year ago one of these women, it had been found, prescribed for a small boy the mushed ashes of a mouse which had been roasted alive, served to him with his porridge.
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Evening Star, Issue 19994, 11 October 1928, Page 3
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159ROASTED TOAD AS MEDICINE Evening Star, Issue 19994, 11 October 1928, Page 3
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