Baldness Cures From The Past

The "Pig Spleen" cure

Canadian farmer Gus Wickstrom touts the medicinal properties of the pig spleen as a cure for baldness and arthritis.

Mr Wickstrom is one of a handful of people on the Saskatchewan Prairies who forecasts the weather by examining the spleen of a freshly slaughtered pig.

Aged 64, he's been reading spleens for more than 20 years.
The farmer claims fatty deposits on a pig's spleen tell him what the weather will be like and the forecast is accurate for a 200-mile radius around where the pig was slaughtered.

Mr Wickstrom wouldn't divulge exactly what had to be done with a spllen to cure baldness.

He wouldn't say whether the spleen is boiled and eaten or whether a lotion is made up and rubbed into the scalp.