London, August 30 (ANI): A 300-year-old medical journal that was discovered last month, suggests a rather controversial yet interesting cure for teenagers suffering from acne.
The handwritten manuscript recommends that spotty teens should drink alcohol to counter their blotchy blemishes.
While the modern consensus is that alcohol can make angry skin considerably worse, the 18th-century guide prescribes wine.
The book advises adolescents to "take of wine three drachms. Flour of brimstone one drachm. Of cardamons one ounce," reports the Daily Mail.
"One teaspoon to be taken twice a day in a wine glass of water," it adds.
A drachm, better known as a dram, is equal to an eighth of a fluid ounce - and brimstone is an archaic term for sulphur.
The mystery source goes on to say that eating rhubarb is also known to calm volatile skin conditions.
With the first entry made in 1767, this encyclopaedia is believed to be one of the oldest specimens of its kind.
The text, bound in green-stained vellum, has several authors with the last entry dated in the mid-19th century.
For a cancer, one of the book's authors says that you must: "Anoint the part with the juice of the woolly headed thistle."
It was discovered by a Derbyshire antique enthusiast who bought the item in July at a car boot sale for a mere 1.50 pounds.
The early catalogue of cures is now expected to fetch between ?100 and 150 dollars when it goes up for auction in September. (ANI)
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