This page from Young's Great Book of Secrets says that in the 1900's, some women believed that there was a recipe to make themselves beautiful.

This book (Notebook of Recipes and Remedies) says that in the early 1900's, many people believed that you could cure cancer. This book tells you to put sticking plaster over the cancer with a circular piece cut out of the center that's a little larger than the cancer, so that the cancer and the healthy skin next to it are exposed.

An eye washer was a tool used in the 1900's to administer medicine or liquid into your eye in a simple way, to help make sure that the medicine would stay in one area of the eye and wouldn't spill.