To Cure a Nosebleed, Sniff a Giant Spider

[skepticalboffin]

I've just gotten my electronic paws on this book by a Dr. Johann Wecker, published in 1661, called "Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art & Nature: Being the Summe and Subftance of Naturall Philofophy, Methodologicall Digefted", and lord, is it a treasure. The tome is a large, rambling work about, well, the secrets of nature and how to manipulate

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[toi_marguerite]

Ha! I don't know how I'd work this into a fic just yet, but who knows? I still have to figure out what to do with the botched gallstone surgery thing too....

[skepticalboffin]

ROFL! Dear Force, the book is packed, I tell you, PACKED with just about every hokey treatment, dubious gardening method, pyrotechnical horrors, techniques for counterfeiting precious stones and insulating houses and... strangely enough, reasonable step-by-step guides for making a rudimentary telescope and invisible ink. While some if it is just plain ludicrous, one has to admire the writer's obsession for digging out these nuggets of information. If you ever need a method in your fics for... well, *anything*, you could do worse than check this book out. ;)