Other possibilities would be to examine the active compounds that therapeutically employed insects and other invertebrates contain and then discuss the animals on the basis of the relatedness of their active ingredients or to deal with the uses of the insects and other invertebrates region by region....
Although admittedly a far-fetched story, it is not altogether impossible that this could have been the origin of the accepted “treatment”, but what this example nevertheless illustrates is that explanations for accepted practices should be sought even if they sound like pure superstition. Having ...