Medicine
Hasbro’s Mr. Carrot Head
Is it just me, or was there more creativity in the old days, when you could use "any fruit or vegetable" with Mr. Potato Head, and arrange the features anyplace on the head, instead of in the pre-drilled slots?
I was also curious if "play doctor" sets were still made, and they certainly are, as you can see in the link below. Thank goodness children are still abetted in their, ahem, innocent early vocational explorations!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 19, 2014 -
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Category: Medicine, Toys, 1950s
Feeling Nuts
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 14, 2014 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Medicine, PSA’s, Genitals
Quacks and Nostrums
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 01, 2014 -
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Category: Frauds, Cons and Scams, Medicine, PSA’s, 1950s
John Braund and His Cure for Cancer
Link to newspaper article of the era.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 02, 2014 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Medicine, 1940s, South Pacific
Check the Neck!
Beware of the "neck-breathers" among us!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 29, 2014 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Health, Medicine, PSA’s
What a Wonderful World It Would Be
The lesson? If only doctors could build our cars.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 23, 2014 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Family, Medicine, Technology, 1960s, Cars
“He Prescribes Asbestos Medicine”
source: Newsweek, 1947
Posted By: Alex - Fri May 23, 2014 -
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Category: Medicine, Advertising
Drinkable Suntan Lotion
New from Osmosis Skincare. A suntan lotion that you don't need to rub all over your skin. You just drink it. The Bristol Post explains:The drinkable solution is supposedly the equivalent of factor 30 SPF sun screen.
Not only drinkable, but holistic! That certainly sounds credible.
Posted By: Alex - Tue May 20, 2014 -
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Category: Health, Medicine
Pigeon Blood Visine
Back in the 17th century, if you suffered from a burst blood vessel in your eye, the medical treatment of the day called for squirting pigeon blood in your eye. This was to be repeated 5 or 6 times. The treatment is recorded in a number of medical manuscripts, such as this anonymously authored one from 1663 preserved in the Wellcome Collection. [via The Recipes Project]Take a pidgeon and let him blood in one of the winges in the vein & let the blood spinne out of the veine into the eye & it will helpe you yf you use it 5 or 6 tymes.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Apr 26, 2014 -
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Category: Medicine, Seventeenth Century
New Use for Baboon Urine
According to NehandaRadio.com, baboon urine is "selling like hot cakes" in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The place to go to get it is the Bulawayo City Council run toilets at Egodini commuter omnibus terminus.The source of its appeal is the belief that "a baboon by its nature urinates only on one spot. Even if it travels from Matopo to Bulawayo, when it gets pressed, it will travel all the way to Matopo before it relieves itself."
Therefore, by extension (and because the ancient medical 'principle of similitude' dictates this must be so), if the stuff is applied to a man it will "start regulating his bedding tendencies." That is, it will make him faithful to one woman.
The article goes into details about how this is done. However, one husband found his wife's vial of baboon urine, got mad, and domestic violence ensued.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 28, 2014 -
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Category: Medicine, Foreign Customs
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