Sneaky's Daily Did You Know....? - Curious Cures

A popular cure for whooping cough is 19th century Yorkshire was to drink soup containing nine frogs. But apparently it only worked if the patient didn't know in advance what was lurking in the soup.

An alternative remedy was to feed the sufferer with milk which had previously had been partly lapped by a ferret, or passing the child three times under the belly of a donkey.