The season of cold fits and Agues is upon us, so let us offer our readers Cures and Medicines from the Caucauses:

The most usual Cure for Agues in this Country [Georgia] is to make Plaisters of the Fat of a Sheeps Rump, Cinamon, Cloves and Cardamomes, and all the time of the cold fit to lay these Plaisters upon the Forehead, Stomach and Feet. When the hot fit is over, take off those Plainters and lay on others, made of the Leaves of Chihory, Plantain, and the Herb call'd Solanum or Nightshade, afterwards they take a Sucking-Pig, cut in two and clap it to the Feet. All which time the Patient is fed with Bread and Cream of Almonds, eating nothing that is boyl'd.

-- The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (1686), quoted in The Georgian Feast

I believe Mr. Bodio receiv'd a similar Treatment in his Voyages to Kazakh Tartary, tho' in his Case involving Slabs of Horse-Flesh, which Procedure was successful.