[Sca-cooks] Raw bacon thing?

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

"As for  raw bacon which as I hear the Franks are wont to eat, I am 
surprised they find  such a medicine sufficient, and that those who eat it so, raw, 
need no other  medicine, because its benefit is great and as an antidote 
gives them better  health, benefiting all internal organs like good medicine 
and any vices in the  bowels or the intestines are healed by it and if there 
are any intestinal worms  or ringworms moving, it expels them. For it 
tempers the belly, and what is  better, by this food they are healthier than 
others. For this is a great example  that is told, if one is to believe what is 
said, that [for] all  wounds, made outside or inside the body or from a blow, 
raw bacon laid  constantly along it purges the stench of the wound and 
heals it, and so can  benefit the internal organs, as said above. Here then is 
the benefit of raw  bacon, and as doctors try to heal with medicines or 
potions or cure with  plasters, the Franks heal with raw bacon."
 
Jim  Chevallier
_www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 

Beyond the peacocks:  what most Medieval eaters actually ate
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/04/beyond-peacocks-what-most-medieval.html






In a message dated 4/7/2014 1:11:52 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
saintphlip at gmail.com writes:

Which  raw bacon thing are you referring  to?