Dried toad as an amulet against seizures in English folk medicine

I don't wish to make diagnoses, but what if Andrey Trubnikov, founder of Natura Siberica, who always wears a toad around his neck, took his inspiration from the old English custom of making an amulet from a dried toad to ward off fits? True, in England the toad's little carcass was worn in a silk pouch. Like, for example, this toad from the early twentieth century, from South Devon, in the collection of the Science Museum in London. Biomedicine, so popular in the nineteenth century, advised carrying a live toad about one's person during severe fits. And, believe me, people did. Tailless amphibians were altogether in favour with the adepts of folk medicine: a live frog, for instance, was tied to a wound to hasten healing, or else stuffed into the mouths of those suffering from whooping cough.