Notes & Queries Archive
NOTE1850

Mice as a Medicine

By J. W. H.

An old woman lately recommended an occasional roast mouse as a certain cure for a little boy who wetted his bed at night. Her own son, she said, had got over this weakness by eating three roast mice. I am told that the Faculty employ this remedy, and that it has been prescribed in the Oxford Infirmary.

Topics: Medicine, Historical Customs

Locations: Oxford Infirmary