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Show Mouse Fed to Welsh Boy Peculiar folk medicines and treatments treat-ments still exist in Wales, and there is a fautastic employment of drugs of animal origin in that country, declared de-clared Dr. E. R. Williams at a meeting meet-ing of the British Medical association at Cardiff, Wales. Goose grease, he said, was still held to for wheezing i chests and sore throats, spiders' webs j still had some vogue for cuts, and salt bacon is quite a favorite for boils and whitlows. Doctor Williams added that he was creditably informed that about a year ago, on the advice of a "wise woman," a mouse was roasted alive and the pulverized ashes administered in porridge to a small boy who suffered suf-fered from a childish ailment. |