Show old style remedies Bex down even to the end of the eighteenth century in popular medicine at least the nastier the substance the more potent the remedy thus wood lim lice were used to cure indigestion or to put it in the lingo of that day were potent cotant to dissolve the mucilaginous tartar tar of the body open obstructions obstruct iong of the viscera etc when it came tc treat epilepsy the grand mal something more powerful was necessary so we are alre not surprised to find the ol 01 old Phyl physicians edans recommending bedbugs ar an almost infallible remedy arts aris to phanes aristotle pliny and dios corlies cor ldes all maintain the efficacy ol 01 these disgusting creatures in aeter f ever pliny says that seven bedbugs swallowed at the beginning of an attack will certainly work a cure |