MalloryKeaton

This is sick. I cant' believe people actually used this so-called "remedy".

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...dd_medicine_dc

Old Pimple Remedy: Using Spot to Cure Spots
Thu Mar 3,10:46 AM ET
London (Reuters) - Take two puppies, cut off their heads and collect the blood, reads the 17th century instructions -- not for some voodoo rite but to cure pimples among the middle class.
Weird health and beauty recipes have been around for a long time. Now two old manuscripts, found at a British stately home and coming up for auction, suggest some truly odd cures for everyday ailments. The 300-year-old cookery, medical and household recipe books, lavishly illustrated and with elaborate script, give advice on almost everything, from treating burns to getting rid of freckles, said manuscript specialist Luke Batterham. "These books are a very direct insight into what people were interested in in the late 17th century," Batterham told Reuters. "People seem to go a very long way for beauty, now and then." One recipe advises to take "2 Puppies before they can see, chopp of their heads & hang them up by the heels to bleed," then mix with white wine to rid the patient of unsightly pimples. Scalds and burns, another says, are best treated with a mixture of sheep's dung and fresh goose grease, while four-day-old lemon juice rubbed on the face is guaranteed to eradicate unwanted freckles. The two books are expected to fetch a total or more than 2,000 pounds ($3,844) when they go for auction at Bonhams in London on March 15.

-Kelly-

that's so cruel

mh67511

Not really sure why that would get rid of pimples . But then again, I've read that everything from urine to garlic can get rid of acne.

TokyoNiGHTS

I've seriously never heard of anything like this. What would make anyone even think of doing this?

LittleMilkJug

Eww, to have a cookery and medical book all rolled into one? Just think what you would serve your family if you got the pages mixed. Yuck

*Circe*

I'm disgusted by the contents of the book, but I doubt people bought this book to actually use it...they're like some oddity they can have i their library collection or something.

However, I was wathching Univision with my Aunt (Apanish language network) and apparently this old Catholic nun in Mexico believes that getting purebred puppies and serving them as soup will cure people of insanity...

And this is fairly recent, like 2 months ago. Still doing it I suppose.

~Belle