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dance^ however^ in excavating on the sites of Roman 
stations, and at Lymne, in Kent (Portus Lemanis), 
Mr. Wright has seen them dug up in masses almost as 
large as ordinary buckets, and completely embedded to- 
gether.* In France also empty shells of the apple 
snail have been met with amongst the ruins of Roman 
villas, in the neighbourhood of Auch, Agen, and in Pro- 
vence; and in the Danish kjokkenmoddings,^^ Helix 
nemoralis has been found in small quantities. 
As a medicine, snails were recommended for other 
diseases besides consumption, and Helix aspersa^ the 
common garden snail, was generally used. 
In a quaint old book, entitled ^A Rich Storehouse 
or Treasurie for the Diseased, wherein are many ap- 
proved medecines for divers and sundrie diseases which 
have been longe hidden, and not come to light before 
this time ; first set forth for the benefit of the poorer 
sorte of people that are not of abilitie to goe to the Phy- 
sicians,^ by Master Ralph Bower, we find : — Snales 
which bee in shells, beat together with bay salt and 
mallow es, and laid to the bottomes of your feet, and to 
the wristes of your hands, before the fit commeth, ap- 
peaseth the ague.^^ Again Take 20 garden snailes, 
and beate them (shelles and all) in a morter, untill you 
perceiue thqm to be come to a salue ; then spread a little 
thereof upon a linnen cloath, and lay it to the place 
grieued, and when one plaister is dry, then take that of, 
and put on another, and it will both heale the sore place 
and draw it.^^ For corns, he recommends blacke sope 
and snailes, of each a like quantitie, stampe them togi- 
ther, and make a plaister thereof, and spread it upon a 
piece of fine linnen cloth, or else upon a piece of white 
* ‘ The Celt, the Eoman, and the Saxon.’ 
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