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Historical Documents A Way to Get Wealth 1683 |
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click image for close-upClick here for the text of this historical document. Gervase Markham, an English poet and playwright, also wrote about various topics relating to country life and sporting pursuits. His 1683 treatise, A Way to Get Wealth, is an agricultural handbook -- equivalent to a farmer's almanac.
The book contains information such as an "infallible way to curing all deseases in cattel," listing various diseases that afflict livestock and the herbal "cures" for each disease, the methods of branding, the placement of bee hives, healing wounds of hawks, and the caring of human diseases.
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