Snails as a medicine.
Dr Bulleyn, a famous physician of Elizabeth's day, says snails broken from the shell and sodden in white wine with oil and sugar are very wholesome, because they are hot and moist, for the straitness of the lungs and cold cough; so those who believe snail-soup as good as cod-liver oil have professional warrant for their faith, though most consumptive patients might declare the remedy to be worse than the disease, if it is necessary, as Mrs Delaney says, to take a spoonful of snail-sirrup with everything imbibed. In the winter and spring resorts for invalids in the south of England, snails are carefully collected for the purpose of making a kind of mucilaginous soup for those who are affected with certain complaints. We are told that nothing is more delicate and nourishing.
- Chambers's Journal.
Edinburgh Evening News, 19th April 1875.
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