snail syrup

Noun

snail syrup

1. A syrup made from snail slime for medicinal use.
   • Some of his means of cure are crude enough, as, for example, when he prescribes snails and snail syrup; but there is one line of treatment, by way of inhalation, which he names, and which ought not, in these days, to be forgotten.1892, The Asclepiad. v. 9, 1892 - Volume 9, page 82
   • Snail syrup, prepared by passing a stout thread through the shell and body of a number of snails, and suspending them over a dish of coarse brown sugar, upon which their mucilaginous exudations are allowed to drop, is recommended by the village dames of Sussex as a specific for coughs and colds.1900, John William Taylor, Monograph of the Land & Freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles, page 428