Welsh Journals

A Snippet from the Record Office A CURE FOR THE MANGE Give your dog flower of brimstone 3 mornings successively. The next day bleed him. The day following rub the parts effected with salt and water till they are quite raw. Then when he's dry, anoint him before the fire and continue the same every third day so that the dog may be thrice anointed. When this is done, take some tobacco dust, boil it and with it wash your dog clean from all scurf and filth and then let him loose as you please. THE OINTMENT Gun powder, stone, brimstone and ginger-the two former of equal quantities, of the latter somewhat less. Mix these up together in hog's grease 3 or 4 days before you use them. This unsavoury remedy for an ailing dog was found on the reverse side of a letter (dated 8 Jan 1740) among a collection of papers relating to the Manor of Park Lettice. The manor was held by the Williams family from the sixteenth to the early eighteenth century, while in the 1800s it became part of the Llanover Estate under Benjamin Hall.