Show some horrors of quackery the old proverb any port in a storm has often found practical illustration in the empirical treatment of disease time was when even regular practitioners in the art of healing included in their professional armament along with many simple remedies of real value other matters mattera the very mention of which might almost suffice to engender illness we may feel thankful that we have now entered upon a later and more scientific era and that such extraordinary drugs as weasels gizzards giz does hoofs snails and other even more repulsive horrors do not now find a place in any pharmacopoeia there still exists however a species of medical folklore end and some of its prescribed wisdom available for use in illness is of the most remarkable kind times of panic by throwing a population to some entena on its own resources for treatment uro are apt to create a demand tor for these survivals of a dark age this happened lately in germany Ger where a toad cooked with much care was swallowed as a cure core for cholera As to the result we are not informed most of us would probably choose to suffer rather than thus attempt our own relief london lancet |