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LumosMaxima

(585 posts)
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 10:03 PM Mar 2014

Ancient Advice on Losing Weight, Sobering Up, Removing a Tattoo & More

Get Ancient Advice on Losing Weight, Sobering Up, Removing a Tattoo & More at Ask The Past

http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/ask-the-past.html

"It may seem that we live in an era so technologically advanced that our daily concerns differ vastly from those of our ancestors. Nothing could be farther from the truth: we still wonder about the best ways to talk to the opposite sex, still devise outlandish hangover cures, and still obsess over how to lose weight.

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"Run by Johns Hopkins’ Elizabeth Archibald, Ask The Past is a compendium of wisdom from the history books. Below, we’ve selected several pieces of ancient wisdom that may (or may not) help our readers overcome some common problems:

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How To Sober Up (1628)

“That one shall not be drunke. Drink the iuyce of Yerrow fasting, and ye shall not be drunke, for no drinke; and if you were drunke it will make you sober: or else take the marrow of porke fasting, and ye shall not be drunke; and if you be drunke annoint your privie members in vineger, and ye shall waxe sober.”

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