Old Cures 2

The powdered flesh of a mummy was of soveregin power in physic,especially for contusions,where it prevented the blood from settling and coagulating at the injured part.
Aspen leaves are considered good against ague.
Gin was originally invented as a medicine in the Netherlands over four hundred years ago.It was used for the treatment of kidney disorders, gout, rheumatism, and bladder complaints andwas brought over to England by soldiers. It proven popular and soon gin-shops opened all over the country showing outside the sign "Drunk for a penny, dead drunk for tuppence".
In Ancient Egypt it was believed that toothache was caused by a demon that took the form of a worm and invaded teethy.

Odd Cures

Here are a list of ancient cures which,frankly,should make your flesh creep even if they do not effect a cure. The ancients must have been odd people,
Snails boiled in barley water are a sovereign cure for a ordinary cough.
Whooping cough can be curede by anyone riding on a piebald horse.
The heart-shaped leaves of the ordinary wood sorrel were remedial in cardiac cases.
A little moss growing on a skull,dried well and used as snuff was specific for headache.
Anyone suffering the agonies of toothache was instantly relieved by merely smelling a dead man's tooth.
During the middle ages a cure for chilblains involved the patient sitting with his legs tightly crossed and thrashing himself with holly.
Warts:put three dropsof the blood of a wart into an elder leaf and bury it in the earth and the warts will vanish away.
The flowers of the Lily of the Valley being closely stopped up in glass,put into an anthill and taken away a month later,ye shall find liquor in the glass which,being outwardly applied,helped gout.
Turmeric,on account of its deep yellow colour,was of great reputation in the treatment of jaundice.
Driving a iron nail into an oak tree - a sure cure for toothache.
Chilblains should be rubbed well with a mouse skin or the sufferer should roll his feet and ankles in hot embers.