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1. The family's best friend, or The whole art of cookery made plain and easy: together with a complete system of brewery ; the management of malt liquors ; the distillery of simple and compound waters, family cordials, &c ; and instructions for the cultivating of the fruit, flower, and kitchen garden ; the whole being calculated for the preservation of heath, and upon the principles of frugality ... ; the result of forty years practice and experience, together with great assistance in every branch ; embellished with cuts, for trussing fowls, game, &c ; to which is now added, Mons. Millien's famous discovery for preventing either steel, brass, or any other metal from taking rust or canker ; an infallible remedy to prevent persons from taking the small-pox, or any other epidemical disorder ; a certain cure for the bite of a mad dog ; and a variety of other choice nostrums of equal value

Author(s):
Fairfax, Arabella.
Publication:
London : Printed for C. Henderson, [ca. 1755]
Subject(s):
Cooking
Alcoholic Beverages
Medicine, Traditional

3. Letters to married women

Author(s):
Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789, author
Publication:
London : Printed for the author, and sold by G. Kearsley, MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Subject(s):
Child Rearing
Breast Feeding

9. The hospital pupil's guide through London, in a seres [sic] of letters: from a pupil at St. Thomas's Hospital to his friend in the country ; recommending the best manner of a pupils employing his time, and interspersed with amusing anecdotes relative to the history and oeconomy of hospital's

Publication:
London : Printed By A. Seale ; for West and Hughes ; Hughes ; Cox, and Callow, 1800
Subject(s):
Education, Medical
London

16. 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 made public, incontestibly proving their sovereign efficacy in fevers, &c

Author(s):
Norris, Thomas, active 1780
Publication:
London : Printed for the author, and to be had at his house, or at his laboratory, and by all other vendors of these drops, most of whose names are inserted at the end of this essay, 1783
Subject(s):
Antimony -- therapeutic use
Fever -- drug therapy

20. A disquisition on remedies which dissolve the stone, in the human bladder: wherein the different medicinal substances and compositions, recommended for this intention, are impartially scrutinized : and their respective lithontriptic virtues ascertained

Author(s):
Swieten, Gerard, Freiherr van, 1700-1772, author
Publication:
London : Printed for John Williams, MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Subject(s):
Urinary Bladder Calculi -- therapy
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Urinary Bladder Calculi -- etiology
United Kingdom
Stephens, Joanna, -1774.

21. Aristotle's compleat master-piece: in three parts : displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man : regularly digested into chapters and sections, rendring it far more useful and easy than any yet extant : to which is added, A treasure of health, or, The family physician : being choice and approved remedies for all the several distempers incident to human bodies

Publication:
[London?] : Printed, and sold by the Booksellers, 1728
Subject(s):
Reproduction
Medicine

22. Monsieur Belloste's Hospital surgeon, as far as it treats of the gout, rheumatism, cholick, dropsy, stone, gravel, and venereal complaints: to which are added Dr. Sydenham's observations on the gout ; with proper notes on each ; this book is given gratis up one pair of stairs, at the sign of the famous anodyne necklace ... and at Mr. Bradshaw's Stoughton's, & Daffy's Elixir Ware-House

Publication:
London : Printed by J. Hughs, 1737
Subject(s):
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Gout -- therapy
Belloste, Augustin, 1654-1730.
Sydenham, Thomas, 1624-1689.

25. A guide to health, or, Advice to both sexes in a variety of complaints: with an essay on the venereal disease, gleets, seminal weakness, and that destructive habit called onanism : likewise, an address to parents, tutors, and guardians of youth

Author(s):
Solomon, Samuel, -approximately 1818
Publication:
London : Printed for the author, and sold by Mathews ... H.D. Symonds ... and all the booksellers in Great-Britain and America, [1797?]
Subject(s):
Health Promotion
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Masturbation -- prevention & control

26. Nature's assistant to the restoration of health in a variety of complaints: to which is added, An address to parents, tutors, and schoolmasters, with advice to young men and boys, respecting a destructive habit of a private nature

Author(s):
Hodson, J. (James), author
Publication:
London : Printed by E. Hodson, Sold by J. Deighton ... J. Matthews ... T. Tutt ... all booksellers in Great-Britain, Ireland, and America, [1794]
Subject(s):
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Masturbation -- prevention & control

27. 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

29. 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

31. 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

32. 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

34. 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 ... : the second part being A private looking-glass for the female sex

Publication:
Glasgow : [publisher not identified], MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Subject(s):
Midwifery
Sex Education
Congenital Abnormalities

35. The whole of Aristotle's compleat master-piece: in three parts : displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man : regularly digested into chapters and sections, rendering it far more easy than any yet extant : to which is added A treasure of health, or, The family physician : being choice and approved remedies for all the several distempers incident to human bodies, and containing many new recipes, not inserted in any other edition of this book

Publication:
London : [publisher not identified], Printed in the year MDCCLXXX [1780]
Subject(s):
Midwifery
Sex Education
Congenital Abnormalities
Physiognomy

40. 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

45. 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

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