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101. 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

102. A new theory of acute and slow continued fevers: wherein, beside the appearance of such, and the manner of their cure, occasionally, the structure of the glands, and the manner of laws of secretion, the operation of purgative, vomitive, and mercurial medicines, are mechanically explained : to which is prefix'd An essay concerning the improvements of the theory of medicine

Author(s):
Cheyne, George, 1671 or 1672-1743, author
Publication:
London : Printed for W. Otridge, 1766
Subject(s):
Fever -- etiology
Fever -- therapy
Medicine

105. Aristotle's book of problems: with other astronomers, astrologers, physicians, and philosophers : wherein is contained divers questions and answers touching the state of man's body : together with the reasons of divers wonders in the creation : the generations of birds, beasts, fishes, and insects, and many other problems on the most weighty matters, by way of question and answer

Publication:
London : Printed for J. W. J. K. D. M. A. B. E. R. M. R. T. L. B. M. and A. W., [176-?]
Subject(s):
Physiological Phenomena

106. 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

107. 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

108. An English Fellow's answer to a Scotch licentiate's letter: or, a vindication of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London, from the charge of iniquity brought against the Fellows of the said College, in the said letter

Publication:
London : Printed for J. Roberts, MDCCLIII [1753]
Subject(s):
Education, Medical -- ethics
Fellowships and Scholarships -- ethics
Licensure, Medical -- ethics
Royal College of Physicians of London.
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
University of Oxford.
University of Cambridge.

111. The twelfth edition of an essay, on the nature and cure of scrophulous disorders, commonly called the king's evil: deduced from long observation and practice : with additions : and above sixty cases : (some never before publish'd) : the remedies in them used, and occasional remarks : to which is prefixed a coloured plate of the herb vervain, and its root : published for the good of mankind, particularly the common people

Author(s):
Morley, John, -1776, author
Publication:
London : Printed for James Buckland, 1774
Subject(s):
King's Evil
Medicine, Traditional
Plants, Medicinal

112. The fourteenth edition of an essay, on the nature and cure of scrophulous disorders, commonly called the king's evil: deduced from long observation and practice : with additions : and above sixty cases : the remedies in them used, and occasional remarks : to which is prefixed a coloured plate of the herb vervain, and its root : published for the good of mankind, particularly the common people

Author(s):
Morley, John, -1776, author
Publication:
London : Printed for James Buckland, 1775
Subject(s):
King's Evil
Medicine, Traditional
Plants, Medicinal
London

124. Chemical essays: being a continuation of my reflections on fixed fire, with observations and strictures upon Drs. Priestley's, Fordyce's, Pearson's, and Beddoes's late papers in the Philosophical transactions : and an answer to the reviewers

Author(s):
Harrington, Robert, 1751-1837
Publication:
London : Printed for T. Faulder ... J. Murray ... J. Evans ... and W. Creech, Edinburgh, [1793]
Subject(s):
Chemistry
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.

125. Nature's assistant to the restoration of health: to which is added a short treatise on the venereal disease, recommending a safe, easy, and proper mode of treatment : also an essay on gleets, seminal weaknesses, and the destructive habit of self-pollution

Author(s):
Hodson, J. (James)
Publication:
London : Published by J. Matthews ... and sold by all other booksellers in Great Britain, [1789]
Subject(s):
Nonprescription Drugs
Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- drug therapy
Masturbation -- prevention & control

135. 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.

140. 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

146. The inefficacy of all mercurial preparations in the cure of venereal and scorbutic disorders, proved from reason and experience: with a dissertation on Mr. de Velnos's vegetable syrup, which radically cures every species of the above disorders ; and an accurate analysis of that medicine ... ; to which are added, a refutation of Dr. Burrows's late scurrilous pamphlet

Author(s):
Saffory, Henry.
Publication:
London : To be had of Mr. Evans ; Mr. Corrall ; and of Mr. Southern, MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Subject(s):
Mercury -- adverse effects
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Burrows, John, M.D.
Velnos, Jean-Joseph Vergely de.

153. Observations on fevers: with an attempt to prove, that the dangerous symptoms and fatal effects, produced by those diseases, generally happen through a deficiency in the materia medica, and propositions for preventing those symptoms and effects, by a safe, easy and immediate cure

Author(s):
White, R., active 1763-1777, author
Publication:
London : Printed for John Wilkie, [1777]
Subject(s):
Fever -- etiology
Fever -- prevention & control
Materia Medica

154. 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

156. Candid invitations to serious and unbiased reflections, concerning the great and dreadful increase, malignancy and direfull effects of fevers, and other epidemick diseases: which yearly destroy great numbers of all ranks and degrees, age and sex : with important inquiries, remarks and observations on the causes therof : to which is added : reasons and motives to demonstrate the necessity of putting an immediate stop to their growing progress ... : recommended to the serious and unbiased consideration of all who may think the means for preserving life and health

Author(s):
White, R., active 1763-1777
Publication:
London : [s.n.], MDCCLXIII [1763]
Subject(s):
Epidemics -- prevention & control
Disease -- etiology
United Kingdom

157. Advice to booksellers, perfumers, &c. not to sell any more stamps with their medicines, (patent ones excepted) nor the public to pay for them: founded on constitutional principles, with strictures on the Medicine Act, respectfully submitted to His Most Gracious Majesty, and both Houses of Parliament

Author(s):
Spilsbury, Francis.
Publication:
London : Sold by G. Wilkie ... ; and other booksellers, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Subject(s):
Legislation, Pharmacy
History, 18th Century
Nonprescription Drugs
Taxes -- legislation & jurisprudence
England

158. An abstract from the account of the Asylum, or, House of Refuge, situate in the parish of Lambeth, in the county of Surry: instituted in the year 1758, for the reception of friendless and deserted orphan girls, the settlement of whose parents cannot be found

Author(s):
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)
Publication:
[London] : Printed by order of the Guardians, 1799
Subject(s):
Orphanages -- organization & administration
Child, Orphaned
England
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)

159. A general state of the corporation of the London-Hospital, for the reception and relief of sick and wounded seaman, manufacturers, and labouring poor their wives and children: from its institution, November, M,DCC,XL, to the first of January, M,DCC,XCVI : with a list of the governors, &c

Author(s):
London Hospital (Whitechapel, London, England)
Publication:
London : Printed by J. and J. March ..., 1796
Subject(s):
Hospitals, Voluntary -- organization & administration
London Hospital (Whitechapel, London, England)

160. An account of the institution and proceedings of the Guardians of the Asylum or House of Refuge, situate in the parish of Lambeth, in the County of Surry: for the reception of orphan girls, whose settlements cannot be found

Author(s):
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)
Publication:
[London] : Printed by order of the Guardians : at the Logographic Press, Blackfriars, 1786
Subject(s):
Orphanages -- organization & administration
Child, Orphaned
England
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)

161. 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

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