ENTOMOLOGICAL REMEDIES.
Tt is intimated by a writer in one of the medical journals that, not improbably, the insect remedies which bore so important a part iu the materia medica of former times may again be resorted to—such are the changes and mutations which characterise medical practise. It is well known that, in bygone days, they weie administered with as much confidence in their efficacy as
is now given to the medicinal plants of the garden or the tinctures of the apothecary. They were generally given in the form of pills. Five gnats were equal to three grains of calomel; a lady bug was a sovereign remedy for colic and plague ; ants were considered to be invaluable against measles, and a cockchafer for hydrophobia and for the leprosy ; and other bugs were used, with similar assurance, for various disorders.
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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1167, 14 April 1874, Page 4
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139ENTOMOLOGICAL REMEDIES. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1167, 14 April 1874, Page 4
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