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4. An easy way to prolong life: by a little attention to what we eat and drink : containing a chemical analysis : or, an enquiry into the nature and properties of all kinds of food : how far they are wholesome, and agree with the different constitutions : with some directions respecting our way of living : collected from the authorities of some of our ablest physicians

Author(s):
Trusler, John, 1735-1820
Publication:
Printed at Dover : By Samuel Bragg, Jun., for Wm. T. Clap, in Boston, MDCCXCVI [1796]
Subject(s):
Diet
Exercise
Longevity

6. The Edinburgh new dispensatory: with the additions of the most approved formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias ; the whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations ; and enriched with the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine ; with new tables of elective attractions, of antimonial and mercurial preparations, &c. ; and several copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments ; being an improvement of the New dispensatory by Dr. Lewis

Author(s):
Lewis, William, 1708-1781
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the stone-house, no. 41, South Second-Street, MDCCXCVI [1796]
Subject(s):
Materia Medica
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Equipment and Supplies
Scotland
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794.

8. A treatise on cattle: showing the most approved methods of breeding, rearing, and fitting for use, asses, mules, horned cattle, sheep, goats, and swine ; with directions for the proper treatment of them in their several disorders : to which is added, a dissertation on their contagious diseases ; carefully collected from the best authorities, and interspersed with remarks

Author(s):
Mills, John, -1784?
Publication:
Boston : Printed and sold by William Spotswood, no. 55, Marlborough-Street, 1795
Subject(s):
Ruminants
Swine
Cattle Diseases
Animal Husbandry

9. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health: but particularly calculated for those, who are the most unlikely to be provided in time with the best assistance, in acute diseases, or upon any inward or outward accident ; with a table of the most cheap, yet effectual remedies, and the plainest directions for preparing them readily

Author(s):
Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797
Publication:
London [i.e., Boston] : Printed [by Mein and Fleeming], in the year MDCCLXVII [1767]
Subject(s):
Medicine
Materia Medica
Health Promotion

11. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health: but particularly calculated for those, who are the most unlikely to be provided in time with the best assistance, in acute diseases, or upon any inward or outward accident ; with a table of the most cheap, yet effectual remedies, and the plainest directions for preparing them readily (Volume 1)

Author(s):
Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797
Publication:
London [i.e., Boston] : Printed [by Mein and Fleeming], in the year MDCCLXVII [1767]
Subject(s):
Medicine
Materia Medica
Health Promotion

12. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health: but particularly calculated for those, who are the most unlikely to be provided in time with the best assistance, in acute diseases, or upon any inward or outward accident ; with a table of the most cheap, yet effectual remedies, and the plainest directions for preparing them readily (Volume 2)

Author(s):
Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797
Publication:
London [i.e., Boston] : Printed [by Mein and Fleeming], in the year MDCCLXVII [1767]
Subject(s):
Medicine
Materia Medica
Health Promotion

16. The art of preserving health: a poem

Author(s):
Armstrong, John, 1709-1779
Publication:
[Philadelphia] : London, printed : Philadelphia, re-printed, and sold by B. Franklin, MDCCXLV [1745]
Subject(s):
Health Promotion

19. Domestic medicine, or, The family physician: being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases ; chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines

Author(s):
Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Joseph Crukshank, for R. Aitken, MDCCLXXIV [1774]
Subject(s):
Medicine, Traditional
Disease

20. Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines: with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners

Author(s):
Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed for Joseph Crukshank, Robert Bell, and James Muir, of Philadelphia : and for Robert Hodge, of New-York, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Subject(s):
Medicine, Traditional
Disease

21. Domestic medicine, or, The family physician: being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases ; chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines

Author(s):
Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Publication:
Norwich [Conn.] : Printed by John Trumbull, for Robert Hodge, J. D. M'Dougall and William Green, in Boston, MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Subject(s):
Medicine, Traditional
Disease

22. Domestic medicine or, The family physician: being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases ; chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines

Author(s):
Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by John Dunlap, for R. Aitken, MDCCLXXII [1772]
Subject(s):
Medicine, Traditional
Disease
Gout

23. Domestic medicine, or, The family physician: being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases ; chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines

Author(s):
Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed [by John Dunlap] for and sold by R. Aitken, [1772?]
Subject(s):
Medicine, Traditional
Disease

35. Aristotle's master-piece completed: in two parts ; the first containing the secrets of generation in all the parts thereof ... ; 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:
New-York : Printed for the Company of Flying Stationers, 1793
Subject(s):
Sexual Behavior
Congenital Abnormalities
Midwifery
Reproduction

37. The citizen and countryman's experienced farrier: to all which is added, a valuable and fine collection of the surest and best receipts in the known world for the cure of all maladies and distempers that are incident to horses of what kind soever, with directions to know what is the ailment, or disease

Author(s):
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Publication:
[Wilmington, Del.] : London, printed ; ----- and, Wilmington, re-printed, and sold by James Adams, at his printing-office, 1764
Subject(s):
Animal Husbandry
Horses
Cattle
Horse Diseases -- therapy
Cattle Diseases -- therapy

40. Telliamed, or, The world explain'd: containing discourses between an Indian philospher and a missionary, on the diminution of the sea, the formation of the earth, the origin of men & animals : and other singular subjects, relating to natural history & philosphy ; a very curious work

Author(s):
Maillet, Benoît de, 1656-1738
Publication:
Baltimore : Printed by W. Pechin, no. 15, Market-Street ; for D. Porter, at the observatory, Federal-Hill, 1797
Subject(s):
Natural History
Biological Evolution

49. The catechism of health

Author(s):
Faust, Bernhard Christoph, 1755-1842
Publication:
New York : Printed by R. Wilson, for Samuel Campbell, 124, Pearl-Street, 1798
Subject(s):
Hygiene
Health

51. The afflicted man's companion, or A directory for persons and families, afflicted with sickness or any other distress: with directions to the sick, both under and after affliction ; also, directions to the friends of the sick, and others who visit them ; and likewise to all, how to prepare both for sickness and death ; and how to be exercised at the time of dying ; to which is added, a collection of comfortable texts of Scripture, very suitable for dying believers ; the choice sayings of eminent dying saints ; the author's last advice to his wife and children : and his dying words, written by himself, and found among his papers after his death

Author(s):
Willison, John, 1680-1750
Publication:
Wilmington [Del.] : Printed by Joseph Johnson, 1796
Subject(s):
Religion and Medicine
Attitude to Death
Death
Christianity

52. A compendium of practical and experimental farriery, originally suggested by reason and confirmed by practice: equally adapted for the convenience of the gentleman, the farmer, the groom, and the smith ; interspersed with such remarks, and elucidated with such cases, as evidently tend to insure the prevention, as well as to ascertain the cure of disease

Author(s):
Taplin, William, 1740?-1807
Publication:
Wilmington [Del.] : Printed by Bonsal & Niles, for Robert Campbell, bookseller, Philadelphia, MDCCXCVII [1797]
Subject(s):
Animal Husbandry
Horse Diseases
Horses

54. Medicina Britannica, or A treatise on such physical plants, as are generally to be found in the fields or gardens in Great-Britain: containing a particular account of their nature, virtues, and uses ; together with the observations of the most learned physicians, as well ancient as modern, communicated to the late ingenious Mr. Ray, and the learned Dr. Sim. Pauli ; adapted more especially to the occasions of those, whose condition or situation of life deprives them, in a great measure, of the helps of the learned

Author(s):
Short, Thomas, 1690?-1772
Publication:
[Philadelphia] : London printed : Philadelphia re-printed, and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, at the post-office, in Market-Street, MDCCLI [1751]
Subject(s):
Botany
Plants, Medicinal
Phytotherapy

55. God glorified in his works of providence and grace: a remarkable instance of it, in the various and signal deliverances, that evidently appear to be wrought for Mrs. Mercy Wheeler, of Plainfield ; who was restored from extreme impotence, and long confinement ; published at the desire of many

Author(s):
Lord, Benjamin, 1694-1784
Publication:
[Hartford] : Boston : printed in the year 1743 ; Hartford : re-printed by Elisha Babcock, 1798
Subject(s):
Religion and Medicine
Wheeler, Mercy, 1706-1796.

57. The dreadful visitation, in a short account of the progress and effects of the plague: the last time it spread in the city of London, in the year 1665 ; extracted from the memoirs of a gentleman who resided there during the whole time of that infection : with some thoughts on the advantage which would result to Christianity, if a spirit of impartiality and true charity was suffered to preside amongst the several religious denominations, &c

Author(s):
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Henry Miller ..., MDCCLXVII [1767]
Subject(s):
Plague
History, 17th Century
London

58. An astronomical diary, kalendar, or almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1793: adapted to the horizon and meridian of New-Haven, lat. 41 deg. 19 min. north, and longit. 73 deg. 14 min. westward of the Royal Observatory, or Flamsted-House in Greenwich, according to the latest observations : but (without sensible error) may serve indifferently for all the towns in Connecticut, and the adjacent states

Author(s):
Strong, Nehemiah, 1729-1807
Publication:
New-Haven : Printed and sold by T. & S. Green, [1792]
Subject(s):
Forecasting
Astrology
Breast Feeding
Connecticut

60. Observations on the emigration of Dr. Joseph Priestley, and on the several addresses delivered to him, on his arrival at New-York, with additions: containing many curious and interesting facts on the subject, not known here, when the first edition was published : together with a comprehensive story of a farmer's bull

Author(s):
Cobbett, William, 1763-1835
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by Thomas Bradford, 1795
Subject(s):
Politics
Emigration and Immigration
History, 18th Century
United States
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.

61. The millenial door thrown open or, The mysteries of the latter day glory unfolded: in a discourse, delivered at East-Windsor, state of Connecticut, July Fourth, 1799 ; the twenty-third year of the declaration of the independence of the United States : in which event was laid the corner stone of the national temple, under whose auspices all worshippers of God are allowed full indulgence : and from which springs the temple of the living God, into whose bosom the nations of the earth are to bring their glory and their honor

Author(s):
Austin, David, 1759-1831
Publication:
East-Windsor [Conn.] : Printed by Luther Pratt, July, 1799
Subject(s):
Bible
Religion
Anniversaries and Special Events
Holidays
United States

63. The American oracle: comprehending an account of recent discoveries in the arts and sciences, with a variety of religious, political, physical, and philosophical subjects, necessary to be known in all families, for the promotion of their present felicity and future happiness

Author(s):
Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809
Publication:
New-York : Printed for, and sold by Hodge and Campbell, Berry and Rogers, and T. Allen., MDCCXCI [1791]
Subject(s):
History
Natural History
Medicine
Science
United States

67. Aristotle's master piece completed: in two parts ; the first, containing the secrets of generation in all the parts thereof ... ; the second part ; 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 the kind hitherto published

Publication:
New-York : Printed for the United Company of Flying Stationers, MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Subject(s):
Sexual Behavior
Congenital Abnormalities
Midwifery
Reproduction

69. The dreadful visitation in a short account of the progress and effects of the plague: the last time it spread in the city of London in the year 1665 extracted from the memoirs of a person who resided there, during the whole time of the infection : with some thoughts on the advantage which would result to Christianity, if a spirit of impartiality and true charity was suffered to preside amongst the several religious denominations, &c

Author(s):
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Publication:
Germantown [Pa.] : Printed by Chr. Sower, 1763
Subject(s):
Plague
History, 17th Century
London

73. A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying in women: and the means of curing, but more especially of preventing the principal disorders to which they are liable ; together with some new directions concerning the delivery of the child and placenta in natural births ; illustrated with cases

Author(s):
White, Charles, 1728-1813
Publication:
Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts : By Isaiah Thomas ; sold at his bookstore in Worcester ; sold also by said Thomas, and Andrews, Faust's Statue, Newbury Street, Boston ; and by said Thomas, and Carlisle, in Walpole, Newhampshire, MDCCXCIII [1793]
Subject(s):
Pregnancy Complications -- prevention & control
Delivery, Obstetric

74. Arbustrum Americanum: the American grove, or, an alphabetical catalogue of forest trees and shrubs, natives of the American United States, arranged according to the Linnaean system : containing, the particular distinguishing characters of each genus, with plain, simple and familiar descriptions of the manner of growth, appearance, &c. of their several species and varieties ; also, some hints of their uses in medicine, dyes, and domestic oeconomy

Author(s):
Marshall, Humphry, 1722-1801
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets, MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Subject(s):
Trees -- classification
Phytotherapy
United States

76. The New-England farrier, or, A compendium of earriery [sic], in four parts: wherein most of the diseases to which horses, neat cattle, sheep and swine are incident, are treated of ; with medical and surgical observations thereon ; the remedies, in general, are such as are easily procured, safely applied, and happily successful ; being the result of many years experience ; and first production of the kind in New-England ; intended for the use of private gentlemen and farmers

Author(s):
Jewett, Paul.
Publication:
Newburyport [Mass.] : Printed by William Barrett, at his printing-office Merrimack-Street, MDCCXCV [1795]
Subject(s):
Horse Diseases
Animal Husbandry

77. An almanack for the year of our Lord 1701: calculated for and fitted to the meridian of Boston in New-England, where the North Pole is elevated 42 gr. 30 min. ; but may indifferently serve any part of New-England

Author(s):
Tulley, John, 1638-1701
Publication:
Boston : Printed by B. Green, & J. Allen sold at the printing-house at the south end of the town, 1701 [i.e., 1700?]
Subject(s):
Forecasting
Bloodletting
New England

82. A compendium of practical and experimental farriery: originally suggested by reason and confirmed by practice, equally adapted for the convenience of the gentleman, the farmer, the groom, and the smith ; interspersed with such remarks, and elucidated with such cases, as evidently tend to insure the prevention, as well as to ascertain the cure of disease

Author(s):
Taplin, William, 1740?-1807
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed for Robert Cambell [sic] & Co, 1797
Subject(s):
Animal Husbandry
Horse Diseases
Horses

85. The gentleman farrier's repository, of elegant and approved remedies for the diseases of horses: in two books ... ; with suitable remarks on the whole ; to which are now added ; observations on broken-winded horses, endeavouring to prove the seat of that malady not to be in the lungs

Author(s):
Bartlet, J. (John), 1716?-1772
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, MDCCLXXV [1775]
Subject(s):
Horse Diseases
Animal Husbandry
Horses

88. The Edinburgh new dispensatory: with the additions of the most approved formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias ; the whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations ; and enriched with the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine ; with new tables of elective attractions of antimonial and mercurial preparations, &c. ; and several copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments ; being an improvement of the New dispensatory by Dr. Lewis

Author(s):
Lewis, William, 1708-1781
Publication:
Printed at Walpole, Newhampshire : By D. Carlisle, Jun. for Thomas & Andrews, in Boston, and said Thomas, in Worcester; sold by Thomas & Andrews, in Boston ; by said Thomas, in Worcester ; by Thomas, Andrews & Butler, Baltimore ; and by Thomas, Andrews & Penniman, Albany, 1796
Subject(s):
Materia Medica
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Equipment and Supplies
Scotland
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794.

89. The Edinburgh new dispensatory: with explanatory, critical, and practical observations on each : together with the addition of those formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias, which are held in highest esteem in other parts of Europe ; the whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations, and enriched by the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine ; with new tables of elective attractions, of antimony, of mercury, &c. ; and copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments ; being an improvement upon the New dispensatory of Dr. Lewis

Author(s):
Lewis, William, 1708-1781
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by T. Dobson, at the stone-house, no. 41, in Second-Street, MDCCXCI [1791]
Subject(s):
Materia Medica
Equipment and Supplies
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Scotland

91. The American instructor, or, Young man's best companion: containing, spelling, reading, writing and arithmetic, in an easier way than any yet published ; and how to qualify any person for business, without the help of a master ; instructions to write variety of hands ... ; how to write letters on business or friendship ; forms of indentures ... releases, &c. ; also merchant's accompts, and a short and easy method of shop and book-keeping ; with a description of the several American colonies ; together with the carpenter's plain and exact rule ... ; likewise the practical gauger made easy ... ; to which is added, The poor planter's physician ... and also prudent advice to young tradesmen and dealers ; the whole better adpated to these American colonies, than any other book of the like kind

Author(s):
Fisher, George, accomptant
Publication:
New-York : Printed and sold by H. Gaine, at the Bible and Crown, in Hanover-Square, MDCCLXX [1770]
Subject(s):
Mathematics
Accounting
Commerce

92. Medical advice to the inhabitants of warm climates, on the domestic treatment of all the diseases incidental therein: with a few useful hints to new settlers, for the preservation of health, and the prevention of sickness

Author(s):
Thomas, Robert, 1753-1835
Publication:
Nassau, New-Providence : Printed and sold by John Wells, MDCCXCIV [1794]
Subject(s):
Disease
Emigration and Immigration
African Continental Ancestry Group
Tropical Climate
West Indies -- epidemiology

94. Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, or, the London dispensatory: further adorned by the studies and collections of the fellows now living, of the said college

Author(s):
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
Publication:
Boston : Printed by John Allen, for Nicholas Booone [sic], at the Sign of the Bible in Cornhill ; Daniel Henchman over-against the Brick Meeting-House ; and John Edwards, at the Sign of the Light-House, 1720
Subject(s):
Materia Medica
Pharmaceutical Preparations
London

96. The medical pocket-book: containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body : including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues and doses of medicinal compositions and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order

Author(s):
Elliot, John, 1747-1787
Publication:
Printed at Boston : By Manning & Loring, for Thomas & Andrews, Faust's Statue, no. 45, Newbury-Street, 1795
Subject(s):
Medicine

97. The medical pocket-book: for those who are, and for all who wish, to be, physicians ; containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body : including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues, and doses, of medicinal compositions, and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order

Author(s):
Elliot, John, 1747-1787
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Subject(s):
Medicine

98. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health: but particularly calculated for those, who are the most unlikely to be provided in time with the best assistance, in acute diseases, or upon any sudden inward or outward accident ; with a table of the most cheap, yet effectual remedies, and the plainest directions for preparing them readily

Author(s):
Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed [by John Dunlap] for John Sparhawk, MDCCLXXI [1771]
Subject(s):
Medicine
Materia Medica

99. The medical pocket-book: containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body. Including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues and doses of medicinal compositions and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order

Author(s):
Elliot, John, 1747-1787
Publication:
Boston : Printed by Joseph Bumstead, for David West, no. 36, Marlborough-Street, and E. Larkin, Jun. no. 50, Cornhill, 1791
Subject(s):
Medicine

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