New England Rum, constantly used to wash the hair, keeps it very clean and free from disease...
An ounce of quicksilver, beat up with the white of two eggs, is the cleanest and surest bedbug poison.
Honey mixed with pulverized charcoal is said to be excellent to cleanse the teeth, and make them white.
Ear-Wax-
Nothing is better than Ear-Wax to prevent the painful effects resulting from a wound by a nail, skewer, &c
(My favorite) For the prevention of Sore Nipples-
Put twenty grains of sugar of lead into a vial with one gill of rose-water; shake it up thoroughly; wet a piece of soft linen with this preperation, and put it on; renew this as often as the linen becomes dry.
Rum for the hair? I could do that.
But earwax on wounds, mercury in the bed and lead acetate on the nipples? Yikes!
It is a wonder they survived!