How to Cure Lethargy, 1655
In direct opposition to a Frenzie, is the Disease called a Lethargie…
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How to Avoid the Plague, c. 1350
First we should talk about the epidemic, and then about keeping safe from it…
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…
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…
How to Avoid the Plague, 1494
We must guard ourselves against anger, sadness, fear, worry, and pensiveness…
How to Cure a Werewolf, 6th century
Those who are afflicted by the disease cynanthropy or lycanthropy go out at night…
How to Cure Congestion, 1682
For a Cold and stuffing in the Head, to draw Rheum from the Head…
How to Stop Bleeding, 1596
A very good Medicine to staunch bloud… Take a peece of Salt Biefe…
How to Improve Your Brain, 1596
A Rule to knowe what thinges are good and holosome for the Braine…
How to Protect Against Disease, c. 1470
Anyone who can ride a bear the distance of nine paces without faltering…
How to Cure Stomach Pain, 1697
If you apply a living duck, the feathers being pulled off behind, to the Stomach…
How to Dress a Wound, 1653
To stanch the bleeding of a Wound. Take a Hounds Turd…
How to Replace a Nose, 1587
An incision is made in the skin of either arm, left or right, down to the flesh…
How to Use Bacon, c. 530
At this point I will explain how bacon may be eaten to the best effect…
How to Choose Honey, 4th century
We recall that in all treatments the honey which is most effective is that in which there are dead bees…
How to Tell if Someone Is or Is Not Dead, c. 1380
Moreover, if there is any doubt as to whether a person is or is not dead…
How to Improve Your Memory, 1563
To make one have a good memorie. Take a Tooth or the lefte legge of a Badgre…
How to Cure Head Congestion, 1596
A Medicine for the stopping of the nose and head, which commeth by reason of colde…
How to Avoid the Plague, 1595
Whosoever eateth two Walnuts, two Figs, twenty leaves of Rew, and one graine of Salt…
How to Cure Ear Problems, 1590
Earth Wormes fried with Goose greace, then straind…
How to Make Someone Die of Laughter, 13th century
Beneath the armpits are certain veins called “ticklish”…
How to Cure Nausea, 1693
A speedy Remedy for Fits of Vomiting. Take a large Nutmeg, grate off one half of it…
How to Heal All Wounds, 1683
A Drink that healeth all Wounds… Take Sanicle, Milfoil, and Bugle, of each a like quantity, stamp them in a Mortar…
How to Cure Seasickness, 1695
Others assure me, That the best Remedy is, to keep always, night and day, a piece of Earth under the Nose…
How to Cure a Headache, 9th century
Headaches you will enchant. Take some earth, touch your breast three times and say…
How to Cure Laryngitis, 1579
Laye a thynne peece of rawe Beefe, to the forehead of them that have lost theyr voyce…
How to Sober Up, 1628
That one shall not be drunke. Drink the iuyce of Yerrow fasting…
How to Stop Bleeding, 1664
To Stench a Bleeding Wound, Lay hogs Dung, hot from the Hog…