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    How to Recognize a Werewolf, c. 1340

    Lycanthropy is a kind of melancholy making the affected persons wander at night-time…

    How to Behave in Public, 1663

    It is a point of cleanliness, and of wholsomness, to wash ones hands and face as soon as one is up…

    How to Cure Lethargy, 1655

    In direct opposition to a Frenzie, is the Disease called a Lethargie…

    How to Avoid the Plague, c. 1350

    First we should talk about the epidemic, and then about keeping safe from it…

    How to Stay Healthy in September, c. 1300

    Here we should talk about September…

    The Past Asks You: Citrus Harvest, 1307

    I go to a garden, and I come to the foot of an orange tree…

    How to Avoid the Plague, 1550

    But it is good in all tymes, to beare about you preciouse stones…

    How to Cure Melancholy, 1587

    Of the Passion of the Splene. This impediment doth come by thought, anger or care, or sorow…

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