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    How to Enchant Your Lover, c. 1470

    When a woman wants to be well loved by her husband or her lover, she must give him catnip…

    How to Maintain Facial Hair, 1609

    John Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis (1650)

    How to Groom Yourself, c. 1200

    Let your hair be combed, and your haircut be equally neat. If you are shaggy…

    How to Cure Tooth Problems, 1673

    Take the Powder of double refined Sugar, and Powder of White Pepper of each alike…

    How to Keep Your Cat, c. 1470

    If you have a good cat and you don’t want to lose it…

    How to Play with a Cat, 1658

    How to make dainty sport with a Cat…

    How to Behave in School, 1595

    Be it far from thee to go unto the Schoole with as ill a will as wicked dooers…

    How to Settle Your Stomach, 1695

    The Oyl of Wormwood by Decoction, Oyl of Quinces, and Oyl of Mastich…

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