Old Cures 3

During the Middle Ages rings made out of coffin nails and blessed by the monarch were thought to be very effective in warding off illness. Mary The 1st was the last English monarch to perform this rite.
A 19th-century cure for smallpox involved opening the window in the patient's bedroom,encouraging gnats to enter and then shooing the insects out again to carry the disease away with them.
In medival times,a cure for toothache was to first make the gum bleed by scratching it with a splinter of wood from a tree struck by lightning and then to hammer the splinter into the tree to leave the pain behind.
Dried and powdered mole added to gin and taken 9 consecutive mornings used to be regarded as a cure for fever.
The Anglo-Saxons believed lettuce to be a cure for insomina.
An old Cornish remedy for chilblains involved standing on one's head for 15 minutes.
The swallowing of fat,live slugs was once thought of as a cure for consumption.
Every bullring in Spainhas a monument of Sir Alxander Fleming,whose discovery of penicillin has saved countless bullfighters from dying of gangrene after being gored.