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A couple weeks ago I was telling a girl at work how Victorian ladies would eat worms in order to stay thin. The very next day we went to The House on the Rock and I saw this. I thought it was fairly ironic. However, I didn't know it was tapeworms they ate! I thought it was a smaller, different worm. Unless there were different varieties of worms you could purchase? :/
Sorry for the quality. I forgot my camera because Dad rushed me, and so was forced to rely on Mom's phone. >.<
~ harui
A couple weeks ago I was telling a girl at work how Victorian ladies would eat worms in order to stay thin. The very next day we went to The House on the Rock and I saw this. I thought it was fairly ironic. However, I didn't know it was tapeworms they ate! I thought it was a smaller, different worm. Unless there were different varieties of worms you could purchase? :/
Sorry for the quality. I forgot my camera because Dad rushed me, and so was forced to rely on Mom's phone. >.<
~ harui
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...and this might not be quite as crazy as it seems. One tantalizing line of research is evidence the epidemic of some autoimmune diseases (allergies, collitis) could be parts of the immune system getting trigger-happy when they can't find the parasites supposed to assault us in our native environment.
Seems like no matter the year in history, there is always loose weight gimmicks.
This one is really scary tho.
Still cool to see things that were used from the past.
This one is really scary tho.
Still cool to see things that were used from the past.
The AYDS diet candy is still the most hilarious diet aid ever. And it was from the 1980s, too!
Awesome! Victorian Apothecarys are awesome and scary at the same time. The stuff they sold at that time ^^' Cool pic! :3
Don't need to go so far. Barely a century ago they sold Radium Water for good health. Minor side effect your jaw will fall off after a while.
Ah well, if a that is the only effect..The rest of your body will be healthy..right?... XD
The most notable. Less noticeable are aggressive cancers throughout the body, degeneration of the bones, leukaemia and other diseases caused by genetic damage and absorption of radioactive isotopes.
I was being sarcastic, but yeah. Yay for old apothecary stuff. making people sicker then healthyer ^^'
Ooh, nice. I've found a number of antique medicines while antique hunting, but this is one I've yet to see.
I never see any! Super cool! Ever seen medicine with radium? I doubt there's much of it left but it's by far the strangest cure-all.
Antique medicine is such an awesome field. So many weird cure-alls!
It is actually a very dangerous way to loose weight. There are several cases know where the parasite left the intestine and caused the death of the user when the critter ended up in the heart or even the brain.
Oh yes, that's why it's called a "parasite"--but you don't really think the sellers cared about that, do you? They just wanted their product sold! There weren't any health and safety statutes back then, so they could piratically sell anything, claiming it was something it was not and curing all sorts of ills. That's why cure-alls were so common back then.
And wasn't just medicine, either. You don't want to know what was in Victorian ice cream. >_>
And wasn't just medicine, either. You don't want to know what was in Victorian ice cream. >_>
They really sold anything including kitchen sinks. Things like opium laced cigarettes, opium, chloroform and so on. I remember a documentary about drugs and in the 1800's the cops like people to use opiates above alcohol for the simple reason opiates made people mellow and easy to handle. If you want to see some ways in how they casually, by our standards, used drugs in the 1800's I can recommend the tv series "Copper".
Ever seen the Chaplin movie "Monsieur Verdoux" he walks into this drugstore and casually orders some chloroform and this is in 1947.
Ever seen the Chaplin movie "Monsieur Verdoux" he walks into this drugstore and casually orders some chloroform and this is in 1947.
Do you know what's sad? My mom would do this. We had a discussion about tape-worms and she made a "happy" comment about not ever getting fat. WTF?! LOL! XD
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