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I’ve heard of all sorts of strange remedies to solving problems on skin. One of the stranger ones that I got to admit having to do that often is to press down a mosquito bite with my fingernails horizontally and vertically so that it looks like a screw. I see people doing that to McDonald’s coke too. When you buy drinks from McDonald’s, you get this disposable cup with a plastic cap. Then, on the plastic cap, they have words like ‘Coke’, ‘Root’ or ‘Other’. Supposedly, the staff of McDonald’s would press the ‘buttons’ down to label the drink as coke so that the consumer don’t have to open and check one by one if he or she buys like 6 meals and each comes with a different drink. But the McDonald’s staff didn’t do that. So we helped them to do that on our drinks. We press down the ‘button’ and dent it as such that it looks like a screw.

I wonder who started that trend.

Anyway, here is one remedy you should never ever ever think of trying, Reuters reports.

Old Pimple Remedy: Using Spot to Cure Spots

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.

Source: Reuters

Those poor dogs, how many have been killed for this? Please don’t do that to dogs, on a side note, you can eat more pork if you don’t like animals.

Tags: beauty, health, odd world