How to Cure Stomach Pain, 1697

If you apply a living duck, the feathers being pulled off behind, to the Stomach, it will ease the Pain of the Cholick.

John Pechey, A Plain Introduction to the Art of Physick

Feeling a little crampy? What you need is the soothing touch of a duck’s bare bottom.

How to Intoxicate Waterfowl, 1777

Way to intoxicate Water-Fowl. First clean, and then steep in clear Water…

There be some, who thinke it a great preservative against the pestilent Aire to keepe a Goat in their houses…

For a Cold and stuffing in the Head, to draw Rheum from the Head…

To stanch the bleeding of a Wound. Take a Hounds Turd…