ABSTRACT
Throughout history, certain plants, as well as virtually every anatomical component of animals and humans, have been ascribed some curative property: earthworms rolled in honey for the treatment of gastritis, owl brain for headache, sheep brain for insomnia, deer heart for heart disease, fox lung for tuberculosis, goat liver for jaundice, powdered human skull or the fresh blood of a dying Christian gladiator for epilepsy, rabbit testicles for bladder disease and, of course, for impotence, and cow dung for eye infections, to name but a few.
