Toad Doctors
After the ratteners and the gong farmers we thought nothing would surprise us, but we were mistaken. This is one of the strangest jobs we’ve heard of, and we’re thankful it’s long gone from the world. Toad medicine and toad doctors might sound like an old wives’ tale, but they were quite popular in the 18th and 19th century.
It sounds like something we see in the movies, but this was once a reality. People in the medical world believed in the healing properties of toads, and so they used them in different medical rituals. Among other disease, scrofula was a common skin ailment at the time. Doctors believed toads can help cure scrofula and other ailments.