A diary item informs us that the injuries of some very famous & valuable footballers have been subjected to some rum sounding treatments – such as calf’s blood or blood from crow’s feet. In the latter case it is not made clear whether the owners of the feet are birds or human kind.
But strange substances with therapeutic effects are not unknown in the world of Big Pharma, so patients with ordinary NHS prescriptions may (often unwittingly) be taking some rum products too.
One of the best known versions of HRT comes from the urine of pregnant Canadian mares; one of the drugs used to stimulate fertility comes (or used to) from the urine of post-menopausal Italian nuns.
So there.
