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on Mar 13, 2012
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Recently I have been researching and preparing for my talk on a Horrible and Curious Wiltshire History. I sent out a call to colleagues asking for any curious items they had come across and knowing my interest in animal related stories (see previous blogs) several items for my growing historic, virtual menagerie were passed to me.
The amazing pig of knowledge...
I am indebted to my colleague Robert Jago who forwarded the following candidates:
Introducing the two-headed calf: a letter in the Marlborough Journal on 25 May 1771, tells of a calf at Mr Oven’s farm, of Garsdon, Malmesbury, born with 2 heads, 2 necks, 4 eyes, 4 front feet, but only 2 behind, and a double leg which became 2 at the hoof, 2 backs, 2 tails and one belly, two hearts, 2 pairs of lungs and 4 passages behind.
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Some months ago an enquirer brought to my attention an unusual addition at the front of one of our parish registers. It was an 18th century cure for mad dog bites, along with a receipt for the bite of a mad dog, ‘Brought from the East-Indies by Sir George Cobb Bart.’, dated 9th July 1759. I found it fascinating and wondered what other weird and ‘not quite’ so wonderful cures and remedies were hiding away in our collection. I found the subject so fascinating that I have waxed lyrical, and I hope you will find it so, too!
‘An Infallliable Cure for the Bite of a Mad-Dog’ in the Beechingstoke Parish Register, 1738-1812
