Brown Paper & Goose Grease

‘Brown Paper and Goose Grease: A Dictionary of Remedies’ was collected by Balsall Heath Local History Society from the memories of older Birmingham people from the days before antibiotics and free health care and Victorian self-help books such as ‘Enquire Within Upon Everything’ published in 1894.

Illustrated throughout with quirky line drawings and copies of 19th and early 20th century advertisements, this pocket-sized book is crammed with traditional health remedies, patented and quack cures for a range of painful ailments ranging from abscesses to wasp stings. Did you know that our Victorian forbears applied horse linament or stinging nettles to relieve lumbago and wore brown paper spread with goose grease under their clothes to relieve the common cold?

46pp, sale price £1.50 including postage and packing.