Some take red cabbage when other methods fail
And eat it with vinegar mixed with the slime of snail;
Some use biting dressings made from ugly lizards,
Pounded up with doe’s hoof and weasel gizzards.
Many think a certain and most efficacious cure
Is a little blue stone ointment mixed with man’s ordure,
And a celebrated surgeon, a knight of great renown,
Used virgin urine as a cure for all the men in town.
Some wear charms like foxes’ tails, or a beaver tooth;
Others boil a new born caul and chew it up, forsooth,” etc., etc., ad nauseam.