CURIOUS CURES OF OLD ENGLAND

The history of medicine is filled with bizarre and gruesome cures - enthusiastically promoted at the time, many of them useless, and some of them fatal. Whether reading about curing a child of whooping cough by passing it under a donkey’s belly, applying chicken dung to weak eyes, or treating a sore throat with snail juice and brown sugar, by all means be educated, fascinated or appalled - just don’t be tempted to try these cures at home.