Could Today’s Doctors Learn From Long Forgotten Cures?
(PRWEB) November 11, 2005
Adders’ tongues, turpentine, ribwort, sheep dung and earthworms are not what you would expect to find your MD prescribing today no matter what ailment you were suffering from, but 300 years ago those are just a few of the many equally bizarre ingredients that your neighbourhood apothecary would have included when prescribing a potion to cure anything from acne to asthma, piles to pleurisy or from coughs to corns.
Forgotten cures they may be but luckily they have not been lost, for in a new e-book entitled ‘Rare Remedies’, David Clapp has lovingly reproduced over 160 cures and remedies from the past and a fascinating and often unintentionally hilarious collection it is.
Based on a book by Robert Boyle first published in 1692 (the same year as the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts) ‘Rare Remedies’ offers a unique oportunity to share at first hand actual treatments that were originally prescribed for ‘poor country people’.
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