The general consensus 400 years later is that Isaac Newton was a very smart young man. During isolation from the plague in 1665-66, he discovered gravity and invented calculus. How bored do you have to be to invent calculus? But even very smart young men have their clunkers. When Newton returned to the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College in 1667, he worked on battling the plague. And he came up with a recipe that will scare away the infection, and most patients, we presume.
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The first step in the cure is hanging a toad upside down in a chimney for three days. You’ll know your toad is ready when it pukes and dies; be careful to collect all the vomit, which Newton describes as containing “earth with various insects in it.”
Next, grind the toad into a powder and mix it with the vomit until you’ve formed several lozenges. Finally, place your toad vomit lozenges “about the affected area.”
However, he was a proponent of social distancing. Read about Newton’s plague research at Smithsonian.
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Source: neatorama