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2. A little book of rare receipts for the cure of several distempers: viz, The King's evil, stone, chollick, black and yellow jaundice, piles, ague, worms, black thrush in children's mouths, breakings out in their infancy, rickets, small-pox, the itch, etc. : set forth for the benefit of all poor Christians

Author(s):
Parsons, Giles.
Publication:
[London] : Printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red-Lyon on London-Bridge, [1710?]
Subject(s):
Cooking
Pharmaceutical Preparations

12. The adventures of Mrs. Tend----: being an impartial answer to a letter to her friend : in which are exhibited some remarks worthy the attention of the curious, her conduct with that of Tend----'s fairly laid open, the injured characters vindicated, and submitted to the public : also letters which passed between them, with some moral reflections

Author(s):
Gentleman, active 1768, author
Publication:
Dublin : Printed for S. Buck, MDCCLXVIII [1768]
Subject(s):
Marriage
Divorce
Kingsman, Dorothea.
Tenducci, Giusto Ferdinando, approximately 1735-1790.

13. Aristotle's master-piece compleated: in two parts: the first containing the secrets of generation, in all the parts thereof : treating of the benefit of marriage, and the prejudice of unequal matches, signs of insufficiency in men or women : of the infusion of the soul : of the likeness of children to parents : of monstrous births : the cause and cure of the green-sickness : a discourse of virginity, diretions and cautions for midwives : of the organs of generation in women, and the fabrick of the womb : the use and actions of the genitals, signs of conception, and whether of a male or female : with a word of advice to both sexes, in the act of copulation : and the pictures of several monstrous births, &c : the second part, being A private looking-glass for the female-sex : treating of the various maladies of the womb, and all other distempers incident to women of all ages, with proper remedies for the cure of each : the whole being more correct, than any thing of this kind hitherto published

Publication:
London : Printed by B. H. and are to be sold by most booksellers, 1702
Subject(s):
Reproduction
Congenital Abnormalities
Parturition
Uterus -- pathology

15. It was my original intention, in discussing the subject, not to advert to any particular instance of the Caesarian operation: but, in consequence of the intruduction of my name, and that of Mr. Ogden, into the account of the case lately published by Mr. Wood in the fifth volume of the Memoirs of the Medical Society of London, I feel myself called upon to say a few words in reply

Author(s):
Simmons, W. (William), 1762-1830
Publication:
Manchester : Printed by Sowler & Russell ..., [1799]
Subject(s):
Cesarean Section
Gangrene

17. A short essay on the virtues of Dr. Norris's drops for fevers: to which are added, letters and certificates of many extraordinary cures, among a great number of others not make publick, incontestibly proving their sovereign efficacy in fevers, &c

Author(s):
Norris, Thomas, active 1780, author
Publication:
London : Printed for the author, and given gratis by Messrs. Fielding and Walker, booksellers ..., MDCCLXXVIII [1777]
Subject(s):
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Fever

22. A compendyous regyment or dyatorye of healthe: used at Mountpylour

Author(s):
Boorde, Andrew, 1490?-1549
Publication:
[London] : Imprynted by me Robert Wyer, dwellyng at the sygne of S. John Euangelyst, in the Duke of Suffolkes tentes, besyde Charynge Crosse ..., [ca. 1550]
Subject(s):
Diet

23. The secrets of Albertus Magnus: of the vertues of hearbs, stones, and certain beasts : whereunto is newly added a short discourse of the seven planets gove[r]ning the nativities of children : also a book of the same authour, of the marvailous things of the world, and of certaine things caused of certaine beasts

Publication:
London : Printed by R. Cotes, and are to be sold by Fulke Clifton, at his shop on Newfishstreet-hill, 1650
Subject(s):
Medicine
Therapeutics

24. A rich storehouse, or, treasury for the diseased: wherein is discovered 69. rare secrets to cure most diseases : many of them never before in print : set forth for the benefit of all those that shall make use of them by a well-wisher of his country

Author(s):
Aymes, John, author
Publication:
London : Printed by E. Crowch, and are to be sold by F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clark, 1676
Subject(s):
Medicine, Traditional
Ointments
Horses

26. Man and woman their own doctor, or, a salve for every sore: being a book full of rare receipts for the most dangerous distempers incident to the bodies of men, women, and children : and very fit to be in all families, in this crasie, sickly, and bad times : gathered out of the library of that famous traveller, Docter Ponteous ; and now published for the good, and benefit of all people whatsoever

Author(s):
Ponteus, John, author
Publication:
London : Printed for L. White ..., 1676
Subject(s):
Materia Medica
Plants, Medicinal
Disease
Cattle Diseases -- therapy

28. A practical treatise or, Second thoughts on the consequences of the venereal disease: in three parts ... ; to which is annex'd a vindication of the practice of salivating

Author(s):
Cam, Joseph, -1743
Publication:
London : Printed for the author ; and sold by G. Strahan ..., W. Mears ..., C. King ..., Edw. Midwinter ..., and Mrs. Baker ..., [1724?]
Subject(s):
Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- therapy
Mercury -- therapeutic use
Chicoyneau, François, 1672-1752.
Willoughby, C.

37. A dissertation on the disorders which affect the neck of the bladder, the urinary passage, and the neighbouring parts: producing excrescences in the urethra ... ; likewise hollow flexible catheters or bougies are made by the author ... ; a proper liquid for injection is also prepared by Francis Lallier

Author(s):
Lallier, Francis.
Publication:
London : Sold by Mr. Nicoll ; Mr. Axtell, [1785?]
Subject(s):
Urinary Catheterization
Equipment and Supplies
Urinary Bladder Neck Obstruction

44. The poor man's physician, or the receipts of the famous John Moncrief of Tippermalloch: being a choice collection of simple and easy remedies for most distempers ... : to which is added, the method of curing the small pox and scurvy, by the eminent Dr. Archibald Pitcairn

Author(s):
Moncrief, John, apothecary
Publication:
Edinburgh : Printed for John Paton, 1716
Subject(s):
Medicine, Traditional
Pharmaceutical Preparations

48. A Boke of the propreties of herbes called an herball: wherunto is added the time ye herbes, floures and sedes shold be gathered to be kept the whole yere, wyth the vertue of ye herbes when they are stilled ; also a generall rule of all maner of herbes drawen out of an auncyent booke of phisyck

Publication:
Imprynted at London ... : by me Wyllyam Copland for Rychard Kele, [not after 1552]
Subject(s):
Plants, Medicinal
Materia Medica

49. Some observations on the case of the brethren of the Corporation of Barber Surgeons, Dublin: who petitioned the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and the Board of Aldermen against several arbitrary and illegal acts done in the said corporation, by John Wright and Richard Thompson, when masters thereof : and by John Conliff and William Lisle Wardens : who upon the demise of the said Thompson, in a very arbitrary and fraudulent manner pretended to elect William Hemming master of said corporation : together with a few reflections on the answer of John Wright, published by him in person, Saturday the 24th of January last

Author(s):
Philalethes, active 1719, author
Publication:
Dublin : [publisher not identified], Printed in the year, 1719
Subject(s):
Barber Surgeons
Societies -- organization & administration
Fraud
Ireland
Thompson, Richard, -1718.
Wright, John, active 1719.
Guild of St. Mary Magdalene (Dublin, Ireland).

50. Good councell against the plague: shewing sundry present preservatives for the same, by wholsome fumes, drinks, vomits, and other inward receits : as also, the perfect cure (by implaysture) of any that are therewith infected : nowe necessary to be observed of every householder, to avoyde the infection, lately begun in some places of this cittie

Publication:
London : Printed by John Charlwood for Thomas Nelson, 1592
Subject(s):
Plague -- therapy

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