full title: A dragon's blood cure for a cold and other bizarre remedies: The 17th century medical guide discovered in an attic
1 posted on
03/25/2009 6:29:56 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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2 posted on
03/25/2009 6:30:17 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
3 posted on
03/25/2009 6:32:26 PM PDT by
allmost
To: SunkenCiv
Don’t laugh. Dragon’s blood worked great on my hemorrhoids.
4 posted on
03/25/2009 6:33:40 PM PDT by
Radl
(rtr)
To: SunkenCiv
......Outlandish natural ingredients include ragwort, nightshade, venis turpentine, ferne roots, hoggs grease and the bizarrely-named 'earbagrace', which is probably Ambergris, a substance produced in the digestive system of sperm whales... AND Just what is so "Outlandish" about it?
I always make sure to have plenty of those items in my medicine cabinet at all times!
Outlandish Indeed!
I believe I've been insulted!
7 posted on
03/25/2009 6:38:28 PM PDT by
Fiddlstix
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To: SunkenCiv
It's full of spelling mistakes and bad grammar but presents a fascination insight into 17th and 18th century quack medicine.'
I think the larger part of 17th and 18th century medicine would be considered quack medicine today.
11 posted on
03/25/2009 7:07:28 PM PDT by
aruanan
To: SunkenCiv
“This just goes to show how far medicine has advanced...
Why, only 20 years ago, we'd have thought a witch put an evil hex on you...but now, we know you probably swallowed a tiny fairy, or maybe even a harmless, little tree troll...Well, time for a good bleeding!”
12 posted on
03/25/2009 7:11:49 PM PDT by
baltodog
(R.I.P. Balto: 2001(?) - 2005)
To: SunkenCiv
17th century medical formulas
15 posted on
03/25/2009 7:37:54 PM PDT by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: SunkenCiv
Don’t laugh. It’ll turn out to be the Fed’s New Formulary...all in it fully 100% covered....anything outside of it...well you’ll need pre-authorization....
16 posted on
03/25/2009 7:39:41 PM PDT by
mo
To: SunkenCiv
...Thanks fer the laugh. Good on yer...
25 posted on
03/26/2009 6:52:58 AM PDT by
gargoyle
(...Lincoln abolished slavery, Obama wants it back, for most of us...)
To: SunkenCiv
Under a future Obama national health care system, this 17th medical book may again become “state of the art.”
27 posted on
03/26/2009 8:54:17 AM PDT by
Towed_Jumper
(Stephen Hopkins: Founding Father who had Cerebral Palsy.."My hand trembles, my heart does not.")
To: SunkenCiv
I always love these modern day geniuses who catagorize some ancient tome as being full of “bad grammar and spelling mistakes”. Don’t the realize that grammar and spelling have changed over the ages?
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