Dr. Antonin Martin recommends the drinking of a large glass of water off rusty nails. Immediately the rank taste of the oil is changed to that of fresh oysters, and the unpleasant regurgitations disappear.–(Jour. de méd. de Paris) Can. Pract.
Reported in The Medical Analectic; Volume 2, Issue 9, September 1885. (Edited by Walter S. Wells, M.D.)
Yuck, I say, yuck. To me the “cure” sounds as bad as the original problem.
We only acquired one issue of this medical miscellany journal. It’s not common (usually held in university medical libraries), but I can’t imagine someone going out of their way to find it. It’s full of 19th century names of things medical (and otherwise), so it’s hard to decide if the remedies are truly as harmful as they sound.
The ads are fun, though, if alarming. Vin Mariani, anyone?