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| Athanasius Kircher, Musurgia universalis (1650) |
"Earth Wormes fried with Goose greace, then straind, and a little thereof dropt warme into the deaffe or pained eare, doth helpe the same: you must use it halfe a dosen times at the least. This is true."
Thomas Lupton, A Thousand Notable Things (1590)
This remedy doth helpe the patient to realize that whatever his original problem was, it wasn't as bad as having hot greasy worms dripped into his ear.
I love how it has to say "This is true." at the end, as if to say "no, really, putting worms in the ears of the deaf is legit medicine".
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