Medieval Cures: Balding

What you will need:

  1. One fox, caught from the king’s forests (make sure you don’t get caught and executed while using illicit traps)
  2. One straight-razor, well-sharpened

Directions:

  1. Skin fox
  2. Collect grease from the underside of the hide of the fox (can alternately be acquired from apothecary for considerable expense)
  3. Have barber shave head completely bald
  4. Smear fox grease on hairless scalp
  5. Repeat

Alternate Cure:

  1. Take one bulb of garlic, crush well
  2. Smear garlic paste on scalp on sunny day
  3. Allow garlic paste to dry in the sun 
  4. Wash scalp in vinegar
  5. Repeat

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