dogmilk

— In ancient times, it was usually the great ladies of the land who fell victim to the beauty-quack’s devices. Desires or no desires—working women were then too desperately impoverished to purchase even a drop of the charlatan’s fantastic concoctions. So, for a long time, it was the Cleopatras and the Princess Olgas who were kept busy [“]shelling out”—for the doubtful privilege of having their bald spots rubbed with frog’s blood and boiled dogmilk!