Some useful wellness assistance from "A corean manual or phrase book with introductory grammar by James Scott 1887" "After vomiting his food, his constipation was relieved."

"He has gone into the harem" Useful everyday phrases from early 20th century Persian Grammar, by Fritz Rosen

Just another set of sensible miscellaneous phrases from your standard Bashgali guidebook. -My country is very pretty -This is a dry year - I saw a corpse in the field - My brother is very corpulent and cannot walk

"Where is the most respectable music hall?" -Cual es el teatro de variedades de mas tono? Useful spanish phrases for the early 20th century traveller.

Doctors didn't mess around with bedside manner in Luganda. (from a 1906 phrasebook) "This illness is incurable".

Visitors to Korea in the 19th century had a phrasebook for all eventualities. - The chief criminal was flogged and beheaded. - If you are rich you will win your lawsuit, if you are poor you will lose.

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This 1871 French phrasebook contained everything the modern crockery-lover required. Clearly Victorian travel on the continent required a lot more in the way of admiring tea-sets. "The milk-pot is very handome....you have a splendid tea-board..."

In 1872, after 12 months of rain, the Archbish of Canterbury sent a shocked letter to his archdeacons. Summary: "You haven't used the Prayer for Fine Weather, you morons." They prayed. Rain stopped. My question: has Archbishop of Canterbury done the prayer yet?