SNAILS IN OLD-FASHIONED MEDICINES
At the beginning of the 19th century, George Culvert compiled a notebook of North Yorkshire folklore. In an account of a cancer cure, which ho obtained from William Ness, of Kirhyntoorsido, ho quotes amongst the ingredients: "One dozen snails and shells dried while, they powder with gentle rubbing/* In 1719. there was printed and sold in London. "A Collection of about 300 Receipts in Cookery, Ph.vsick, and Surgery.'' in which was given "A very good snailwater for consumption. Take halt a peck, of snail-shells, wipe them and bruise them, shells and all, in a mortar; pul to them a gallon of new milk, etc." Tt has long been the. custom for glassmakers or glass-blowers to gather snails io make snail soup, which they consider li> be beneficial to them in curing the disease incident to their hade.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 16 July 1929, Page 2
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