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Ask the Past: How to Handle Books, 1345
Yale, Beinecke Marston MS 67, f. 66r "And in the first place as to the opening and closing of books, let there be due moderation, tha...
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Ask the Past: How to Avoid Sunburn, 1756
Pierre-Thomas Le Clerc, "Polonaise" (1779), MFA "Take Deer's Marrow, put it into a sufficient Quantity of Water with Wheat-Flour, ...
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Ask the Past: How to Change a Diaper, 1612
"Dear Past, Do you have any advice for new parents?" The Cholmondeley Ladies, c. 1600-1610 "How the childe must be made cleane.....
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Ask the Past: How to Train for Walking, 1813
Captain Barclay, Celebrated Pedestrian ( Pedestrianism ) "When the object in view is the accomplishment of a pedestrian match, his r...
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Ask the Past: How to Make Macaroni, 15th century
Tacuinum sanitatis Casanatense "Sicilian Macaroni. Make a dough of the whitest flour, one egg white and rosewater-- and should you be...
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Ask the Past: How to Kill Fleas, 1688
Robert Hooke, Micrographia (1665) "Take an Earthen Platter, that is broad and shallow, fill it half full with Goats Blood, and set t...
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Ask the Past: How to Use Bacon, c. 530
"The Little Hunt," Villa Romana del Casale, Piazza Armerina (4th c.) "At this point I will explain how bacon may be eaten to the bes...
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Ask the Past: How to Exercise in Cold Weather, 1315
J. Paul Getty Museum, MS Ludwig IX 6, f. 2r "If you will, walk daily somewhere morning and evening. And if the weather is cold, if ...
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Ask the Past: How to Stop Sneezing, 1680
Allegories of the Senses (1561), Wellcome Library "To stay the sneezing scratch the Soles of the Feet and Palms of the Hands; rub th...
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https://askthepast.blogspot.com/2015/08/how-to-get-rid-of-stinging-insects-1633.html
Ask the Past: How to Get Rid of Stinging Insects, 1633
Francesco Stelluti, Persio (1630) University of Oklahoma "The Generall Method of Preventing, and Curing all venemous Stingings and B...
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Ask the Past: February 2017
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Ask the Past: How to Choose Your Seat on a Ship, 1458
Noah's Ark: probably smoldering hot and stinking. BnF Fr. 28 f. 66v (Rouen, s. XV) "Furste, yf ye goo in a galey... chese yow a p...
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Ask the Past: How to Succeed at University, c. 1316
Cantigas de Santa Maria , 13th century "I have recently discovered that you live dissolutely and slothfully, preferring license to ...
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Ask the Past: How to Cook All the Birds, 1849
"The Poultry of the World," 1858, a.k.a. dinner "Take a fine large olive, stuffed with capers and anchovies, and preserved in the be...
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Ask the Past: How to Shower, 1867
An Encyclopaedia of Domestic Economy, 1844 "The shower bath, notwithstanding the abuse in its application and the consequent injury,...
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Ask the Past: How to Impress Girls at a Dance, 1530
Fabritio Caroso, Il Ballarino (1581) "Furthermore never fart when you are dancing; grit your teeth and compel your arse to hold back ...
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Ask the Past: How to Make Good Coffee, 1895
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Ask the Past: How to Cure a Headache, 9th century
Ninth-century headache? St. Gall 904 (ca. 850) "Headaches you will enchant: take some earth, touch your breast three times and s...
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Ask the Past: How to Improve Your Brain, 1596
Andreas Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica, 1555 Wellcome Library, London A Rule to knowe what thinges are good and holosome for t...
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Ask the Past: February 2015
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Ask the Past: How to Make Your Own Lip Balm, 1595
"If one use to rub chapped or rough lippes with the sweate behind their eares, it will make them fine, smooth, and well culloured. P...
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Ask the Past: How to Harvest the Mandrake, 12th century
Tacuinum sanitatis Casanatense "It shines at night like a lamp, and when you see it mark it round quickly with iron lest it escape y...
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Ask the Past: How to Pest-Proof Your House, 1639
Vincenzo Leonardi, Common Hoopoe (c. 1619) To repel flies, spiders, scorpions, and other animals from your house. Take hoopoe feathe...
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Ask the Past: How to Cure Head Congestion, 1596
"A Medicine for the stopping of the nose and head, which commeth by reason of colde. Take a good quantity of the iuice of Primrose, and...
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Ask the Past: June 2018
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Ask the Past: How to Succeed at University, 1471
Laurentius de Voltolina, The Classroom of Henricus de Alemannia Liber ethicorum (c. 1360-90), Kupferstichkabinett Berlin "Anyone at...
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Ask the Past: How to Get a Manicure, c. 1150
Tacuinum sanitatis (14th c., Biblioteca Casanatense) One who has very ugly nails should smear them with liquid from the little blad...
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https://askthepast.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-to-walk-on-water-1649.html
Ask the Past: How to Walk on Water, 1649
"How to walke on the Water. For to doe this, take two little Timbrels, and binde them under the soles of thy feete, and at a staves e...
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https://askthepast.blogspot.com/2015/05/how-to-care-for-your-dog-1607.html
Ask the Past: How to Care for Your Dog, 1607
Topsell, The History of Four-Footed Beasts (1658) "It is the nature of a Dogge when he maketh water, to holde vp his legge... the fe...
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Ask the Past: How to Choose a Spouse, 1879
Adelaide Claxton, Courting (1868) "Bright red hair and a florid complexion indicate an excitable temperament. Such should marry the ...
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Ask the Past: How to Choose a Sports Drink, 1899
Charles Terront ( Le Petit Journal , Sept. 26, 1891) "The cause of thirst, what best quenches it, what one should not drink, the opi...
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Ask the Past: How to Sing, 1650
Jan van Eyck, detail from Ghent Altarpiece, 1432 "A singer should not sing through his nose. He must not stammer, lest he be incompr...
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