Slugs and spuds: Victorian Manchester's strange homemade remedies

At a time when there was little real support for the sick outside hospital, working people in Manchester relied on some bizarre remedies

At a time when there was little real support for the sick outside hospital, working people in Victorian Manchester often relied on some bizarre homemade medicines.

The situation wasn’t helped by doctors who failed to explain diseases in a way their patients could understand – causing a range of madcap medical theories to pass through the streets of the s…