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Showing posts with label hot from the hog. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

How to Stop Bleeding, 1664

“To Stench a Bleeding Wound: Lay hogs Dung, hot from the Hog, to the Bleeding Wound.”  
Samuel Strangehopes, A Book of Knowledge in Three Parts (166[4])
Stench, indeed.