15thc perception on swallowtail merlons?

[Dobri]

So that is where Shakespeare got the idea for the seed event of Hamlet?

Was that method of delivery common in European Medieval medicine (other than for removing earwax)?

Is it possible that a remedy applied that way would have any effect, good or bad?

All the best, --stolfi

Perhaps even a snake, after examining how the remedy is being administered, would whisper: "This is wrong." 

Anyway, otic (or auricular) administration of remedies to the ear was quite common in the middle ages.