[Sca-cooks] Butter

[Terry Decker]

> However there apparently was no reference in the
> original source to rickets.  The two ailments it
> specifically mentioned were ulcers and "wild fire"
> (which I take to mean a fever of some sort, though it
> could also be a rash).  So this isn't a matter of an
> medical treatment being arrived at empirically and
> then being explained.  The concept of using May Butter
> to stave off rickets was added by either Wilson or
> Drummond, with no evidence given that it was practiced
> in the middle ages at all. 
> 
> - Doc

Wild fire is erysipelas AKA Saint Anthony's Fire.

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