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Start Over Formats Text ✖Remove constraint Formats: Text Collections Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 ✖Remove constraint Collections: Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 Languages English ✖Remove constraint Languages: English Genre Popular Works ✖Remove constraint Genre: Popular Works Copyright Public domain ✖Remove constraint Copyright: Public domain Publication Year 1700 to 1799 ✖Remove constraint Publication Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1700">1700</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1799">1799</span>

2. A serious address, on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds, with ample directions for the prevention and cure of consumptions: to which are added, observations on the hooping cough and asthma

Author(s):
Hayes, Thomas, active 1783-1786
Publication:
[Boston] : From the press of Samuel Etheridge, no. 9, Newbury-Street ; for John West, no. 75, and Caleb Bingham, no. 4, Cornhill, Boston, 1796
Subject(s):
Common Cold
Whooping Cough
Asthma
Tuberculosis -- prevention & control

3. Every man his own physician: being a complete collection of efficacious and approved remedies for every disease incident to the human body ; with plain instructions for their common use

Author(s):
Theobald, John, -1760
Publication:
[Boston] : London : printed for W. Griffin, in Catherine-Street ; Boston, New-England : printed for Cox and Berry, almost opposite the post-office, MDCCLXVII [1767]
Subject(s):
Medicine
Materia Medica

5. 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

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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

12. 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

13. 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

18. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

26. 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

27. 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.

29. 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

30. 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

32. 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.

33. 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

41. 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

42. 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

45. 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.

47. 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

48. 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

50. 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

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