Showing posts with label unicorns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unicorns. Show all posts

Friday, February 6, 2015

How to Whiten Your Teeth, 1607

That Unicornu fossile is definitely legit.
Michael Bernhard Valentini, Museum museorum (1714), George Peabody Library.
"The horne of an Vnicorne being beaten and boyled in wine, hath a wonderful effect in making the teeth white or cleare, the mouth being well clensed therewith." 
Edward Topsell, The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes (1607)
Wine and unicorns really do make everything better, don't they?