Someone went through this copy of F H Hamilton’s 1882 Health aphorisms, and an essay on The struggle for life against civilization, luxury, and æstheticism not quite with a fine-tooth comb, but definitely with a fine-point pencil. Check out page 21! Continue reading

It’s getting a little late in the season on the Eastern seaboard but if you’re an enthusiastic camper, you can probably find something good in Camp fires and camp cooking, or, Culinary hints for the soldier : including receipt for making bread in the “portable field oven” furnished by the Subsistence Department from 1862. If nothing else, who doesn’t want to try packing their pack with bricks to make an “outdoor bread oven”! Continue reading

Melville C Keith’s 1882 Seven studies for young men is a handbook on the basics of physiology, sex, and “bodily hygiene” with a heavy veneer of evangelical Christiainty. Continue reading

Instead of turning to a Tiktok or YouTube workout, why not try Charles Wadsworth, Jr’s 1891 How to get muscular: five addresses on higher athletics? Continue reading