Old Weird Scotland shares excerpts from Tippermalloch’s Receipts, or The Poor Man’s Physician, a popular self-help book in early 1700s Scotland. They include cures for deafness and earache (urine, breast milk shot from the breast, ant’s eggs); nosebleed (cold vinegar on the scrotum); eye problems (pigeon blood); kidney or bladder problems (fried onions smeared on the anus); incontinence (drink burnt rabbit poop); prolapsed uterus (scare it back in with mice or frogs).
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