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Medicine

Cure for the Common Beard

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Tayler’s Ready Doctor, printed Falkirk 1785, was a popular self-help book full of medical advice. Here is how to promote, discourage, or cure “beardiness”

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Tayler’s Ready Doctor is really full of gems. Here’s another:

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Animals Crime and Punishment Rural Life

Shot twice by a horse

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On 21st June 1870, Alexander Duncan, 29, was digging potatoes at Middlerigg outside Falkirk. Neighbours heard two shots and an hour later, Duncan was found dead with two shots to the chest. An inquiry ruled his horse had shot him by nudging the trigger. Twice.