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October 2010
How to cure baldness and banish onion breath per the 1856 Victorians bible
Curing baldness doesn't need a visit to a dermatologist anymore, as
a nearly 150-year-old Victorians' domestic bible is back to help
you.
Victorians' bible of household management, 'Enquire Within Upon
Everything' was first printed in 1856, and has just been
republished, reports the Daily Mail.
Here are some of the tips one can follow:
Restore hair removed by ill health or age
Onions rubbed frequently on the part requiring it. The powers of
this vegetable are of service in restoring the tone of the skin and
assisting the capillary vessels in sending forth new hair; but it is
not infallible.
Should it succeed, the growth of these new hairs may
be assisted by the oil of myrtle berries.
Scurf in the head
A simple and effectual remedy-into a pint of water drop a lump of
fresh quick lime, the size of a walnut. Let it stand all night, then
pour the water off clear from sediment or deposit, add a quarter of
a pint of the best vinegar and wash the head with the mixture.
Sore throat
Pour a pint of boiling water upon 25 or 30 leaves of common sage;
let the infusion stand for half an hour. Add vinegar sufficient to
make it moderately acid and honey according to the taste.
The infusion must be used as a gargle several times a day.
Hiccups
This is a spasm of the diaphragm, caused by flatulence, indigestion
or acidity. It may be relieved by the sudden application of cold,
also by two or three mouthfuls of cold water, by eating a small
piece of ice, taking a pinch of snuff, or anything that excites
counteraction.
Onion breath
Leaves of parsley, eaten with vinegar, will prevent the disagreeable
consequences of eating onions.
Corns
Boil a potato in its skin and after it is boiled take the skin and
put the inside of it to the corn on your foot and leave it on for
about 12 hours. At the end of that period the corn will be much.
Trap for snails
Snails are particularly fond of bran; if a little is spread on the
ground and covered over with a few cabbage-leaves or tiles, they
will congregate under them in great numbers and, by examining them
every morning and destroying them, their numbers will be materially
decreased.