Book Count: 14
A Book of Curious Advice: Most Unusual Manners, Morals, Medicine: From Days of Yore Edited by: Ruth Pepper Summers
Non-Fiction: History, advice, medicine, etiquette 201 pages 2004
It is amazing the number of ways that people in the past seam to be trying to kill themselves. If you like wondering how humans have lasted this long, then this is a book for you. It includes great advice from the past few centuries with many notes on how this is deadly bad advice that one should never take. There is advice on things like giving opium to babies, smoking to cure asthma, and the dangers of eating vegetables, drinking cold water or bathing. It also has recipes for things like crows, robins and pig’s ears. And my favorite advice in this book, which is giving to single people from “The Guide Board to Health, Peace and Competence” basically states; you’re worthless and it would be better for everyone if you would just die.
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