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2. 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. 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

4. 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

5. The prudent housewife, or Compleat English cook: being a collection of the newest and least expensive receipes in cookery ... ; and new and infallible rules to be observed in pickling, preserving, brewing, &c ; to which are added, a treasure of valuable medicines, for the cure of every disorder

Author(s):
Fisher, Mrs
Publication:
London : Printed and sold by T. Sabine and Son, no. 81, Shoe-lane, Fleet Street, [1800?]
Subject(s):
Cooking
Medicine, Traditional

7. The director; or, Young woman's best companion: being the plainest and cheapest of the kind ever published : the whole makes a complete family cook and physican : containing above three hundred easy receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, candying, pickling, collaring, physick, and surgery : to which are added, plain and easy instructions for choosing beef, mutton, veal, fish, fowl, and other eatables : directions for carving, and to make wines : likewise bills of fare for every month in the year : with a complete index to the whole : a book necessary for all families

Author(s):
Jackson, Sarah, active 1754, author
Publication:
London : Printed for S. Crowder; and R. Baldwin, 1770
Subject(s):
Cooking
Medicine, Traditional
United Kingdom

8. Domestic economy, or, A complete system of English housekeeping: containing the most approved receipts, confirmed by observation and practice, in every reputable English book of cookery now extant : besides a great variety of others which have never before been offered to the public : also a valuable collection, translated from the productions of cooks of eminence who have published in France, with their respective names to each receipt : which, together with the original articles, for the most complete system of housekeeping ever yet exhibited, under the following heads, viz. : roasting, boiling, made-dishes, frying, broiling, potting, fricassees, ragouts, soups, sauces, gravies, hashes, stews, puddings, custards, cakes, tarts, pies, pasties, cheesecakes, jellies, pickling, preserving, and confectionary : to which is prefixed, in order to render it as complete and perfect as possible, an elegant collection of light dishes for supper, adapted for every month in the year : also The complete brewer ... likewise The family physician : being a collection of the most valuable and approved prescriptions by Mead, Sydenham, Tissot, Fothergill, Elliot, Buchan, and others

Publication:
London : Printed for J. Creswick, and Co., 1794
Subject(s):
Cooking
Alcoholic Beverages
Medicine, Traditional
United Kingdom

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

29. The American herbal, or materia medica: wherein the virtues of the mineral, vegetable, and animal productions of North and South America are laid open, so far as they are known ; and their uses in the practice of physic and surgery exhibited ; comprehending an account of a large number of new medical discoveries and improvements, which are compiled from the best authorities

Author(s):
Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809
Publication:
Walpole [N.H.] Printed by David Carlisle, for Thomas & Thomas, and the author, 1801
Subject(s):
Plants, Medicinal
Medicine, Traditional
Materia Medica
North America
South America

36. Der Freund in der Noth, oder Zweyter Theil, des neuen auserlesenen gemeinnützigen Hand-Büchleins: darinnen allerhand Arten solcher nützliche Kenntnisse und Wissenschaften zu finden, die alle Gattungen von Menschen, wes Standes, Geschlechts und Alter er ist, nahe angehet, und beydes Nuzen [sic] und Vergnügen schaffen wird ; von welchen der Inhalt auf folgenden Seiten, und mehrere Nachricht in dem Vorbericht befindlich ist ; für die deutsche Nation in America

Author(s):
Hirte, Tobias.
Publication:
Germantaun [Pa.] : Gedruckt bey Peter Leibert, 1793
Subject(s):
Medicine, Traditional
Animal Husbandry

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