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Show ' Ancient "Cure" for Madness. In, tho "Dlctlonarlum Domestlcum, Doing n Now and Compleat Household Dictionary for tho Uso Doth of City and Country" (1730), Is this suro euro for a malady wditch has In modorn times been regarded as rather obstinate- "For lunacy and madness lloll three largo handfuls of ground Ivy, shred small. In two quarts ot wine till there Is but ono-thlrd part remaining; remain-ing; Mien strain It and add to It six ounces of tho best salad oil; boll It up to an ointment, shavo (tho patient's head, warm tho ointment and chafo his head with It. This Is Dr. Wadenficld's romedy, with which a person is said to havo cured 60 lunatlck porsons." |