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1. The family instructor, or Guide to health: containing the names and description of the most useful herbs and plants that are now in use, with their medicinal qualities annexed : also, a treatise on many of the lingering diseases to which mankind are subject, with new and plain directions respecting the management of the same : with a large list of recipes, which have been carefully selected from Indian prescriptions, and from those who were cured by the same after every other remedy had failed

3. The female medical repository: to which is added, a treatise on the primary diseases of infants : adapted to the use of female practitioners and intelligent mothers ; the technical terms are explained, and an attempt hath been made to reduce these branches of "the healing art," to conciseness and perspicuity

5. Means of preserving health, and preventing diseases: founded principally on an attention to air and climate, drink, food, sleep, exercise, clothing, passions of the mind, and retentions and excretions : with an appendix, containing observations on bathing, cleanliness, ventilation, and medical electricity : and on the abuse of medicine ... : designed not merely for physicians, but for the information of others : to which is annexed, a glossary of the technical terms contained in the work

6. The medical instructer: containing the symptoms of diseases, and directions for their removal : by the use of Dr. Daniel J. Cobb's highly celebrated and invaluable family medicines ; to which are prefixed, certificates and observations recommendatory of their superiour virtues in the prevention and cure of diseases

7. The midwives monitor, and mothers mirror: being three concluding lectures of a course of instruction on midwifery ; containing directions for pregnant women ; rules for the management of natural births, and for early discovering when the aid of a physician is necessary ; and cautions for nurses, respecting both the mother and child ; to which is prefixed, a syllabus of lectures on that subject