How to Give Up Wine, 1658

A Warning-piece to All Drunkards (1682),Wellcome Library, LondonThere are many who when they have drank much Wine, that is the worst thing in the world for them, fall sick, and die of it. Now if you would refrain, and abhor Wine and strong...

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How to Use Wheat, c. 1150

Tacuinum sanitatis casanatense (14th c.) "Wheat is hot and full of profit. Nothing is lacking in it… But, if anyone sifts out the bran from the flour (which is semolina), and then makes bread from that flour, the bread is weaker and more...

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