How to Avoid the Plague, 1630
There be some, who thinke it a great preservative against the pestilent Aire to keepe a Goat in their houses…
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How to Prevent Drunkenness, 1612
Shew me a way how a man may drinke much wine and yet not be drunke…
How to Prevent Sunburn, 1665
To keep the face from Sunburn, you had best wash with water drawn from the whites of eggs…
How to Groom Your Eyebrows, 1563
Take the galle of a hee Gote or of a she Gote, but the hee Goate is better…
How to Cause a Rat Stampede, 1872
The smell of a goat is obnoxious to the nostrils of rats…