RATS FOR BALDNESS
EXTRAORDINARY CHINESE DIET. However obnoxious in real life, rats would seem to have manifold uses when dead Nowadays it is their fur that people use, but according to the author of a seventeenth-century work with the quaint title “Fanzoologieo-Minera-logia’’ human beings miss much by not copying the Chinese in eating one’s kill. The author recommended a diet ol rat fat for the cure of palsy and the prevention of baldness. “What the carrot is to the horse’s coat, the rat is to the human hair,’’ the writer declared. “Every horseman knows that a regimen of carrots will make his steed as smooth and lustrous as velvet, and the Chinese especially the women, know that rats used as food stops the falling out of the hair and makes the lucks soft, silky, and beautiful.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1931, Page 7
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136RATS FOR BALDNESS Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1931, Page 7
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