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Behind the Bastards
A poem in the book 'A Wife' (1616) by Thomas Overbury described an unscrupulous horse dealer's practices, including using live eels as suppositories for horses.
And noted that among other unsavory habits The man knows how to cover up diseases and defects of all sorts for pounding his horses arse with quicksilver And giving him suppositories of live eels.
— Episode: The Ballad of Eel Horse
Episode: The Ballad of Eel Horse
A poem in the book 'A Wife' (1616) by Thomas Overbury described an unscrupulous horse dealer's practices, including using live eels as suppositories for horses.
And noted that among other unsavory habits The man knows how to cover up diseases and defects of all sorts for pounding his horses arse with quicksilver And giving him suppositories of live eels.