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1. 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

2. Aristotle's compleat master-piece: in three parts : displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man : regularly digested into chapters and sections, rendring it far more useful and 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

Publication:
[London?] : Printed, and sold by the Booksellers, 1728
Subject(s):
Reproduction
Medicine

3. 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 : of the infusion of the soul : of the likeness of children to parents : of monstrous births : the cause and cure of the green-sickness : a discourse of virginity, diretions and cautions for midwives : of the organs of generation in women, and the fabrick of the womb : the use and actions of the genitals, signs of conception, and whether of a male or female : with a word of advice to both sexes, in the act of copulation : and the pictures of several monstrous births, &c : 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:
London : Printed by B. H. and are to be sold by most booksellers, 1702
Subject(s):
Reproduction
Congenital Abnormalities
Parturition
Uterus -- pathology

4. 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

8. The compleat city and country cook, or, Accomplish'd housewife: containing several hundred of the most approv'd receipts in cookery, confectionary, cordials, cosmeticks, jellies, pastry, pickles, preserving, syrups, English wines, &c., illustrated with forty-nine large copper plates directing the regular placing [of] the various dishes on the table from one to four or five courses, also, bills of fare according to the several seasons for every month of the year : likewise, the horse-shoe shaped table for the ladies at the late installment at Windsor

Author(s):
Carter, Charles.
Publication:
London : Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch and C. Davis ... T. Green ... and S. Austen ..., 1732
Subject(s):
Cooking
Cosmetics
United Kingdom

9. The complete family-piece: and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide : in three parts ... : with a complete alphabetical index to each part : the whole, being faithfully collected by several very eminent and ingenious gentlemen, is now first published, at their earnest desire, for the general benefit of mankind

Publication:
London : Printed, and sold by J. Roberts ..., 1736
Subject(s):
Agriculture
Cooking
Medicine

10. The country housewife and lady's director: in the management of a house, and the delights and profits of farm : containing, instructions for managing the brew-house ... : directions for the dairy ... : the ordering of fish, fowl, herbs, roots ... : practical observations concerning distilling ... : with particular remarks relating to the drying or kilning of saffron

Author(s):
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732, author
Publication:
Dublin : Printed by J. Watts, and sold opposite the Watch-house the North-side of College-Green, and by R. Norris, and William Smith, 1727
Subject(s):
Cooking
Agriculture
Distillation
United Kingdom

13. A little book of rare receipts for the cure of several distempers: viz, The King's evil, stone, chollick, black and yellow jaundice, piles, ague, worms, black thrush in children's mouths, breakings out in their infancy, rickets, small-pox, the itch, etc. : set forth for the benefit of all poor Christians

Author(s):
Parsons, Giles.
Publication:
[London] : Printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red-Lyon on London-Bridge, [1710?]
Subject(s):
Cooking
Pharmaceutical Preparations

14. Monsieur Belloste's Hospital surgeon, as far as it treats of the gout, rheumatism, cholick, dropsy, stone, gravel, and venereal complaints: to which are added Dr. Sydenham's observations on the gout ; with proper notes on each ; this book is given gratis up one pair of stairs, at the sign of the famous anodyne necklace ... and at Mr. Bradshaw's Stoughton's, & Daffy's Elixir Ware-House

Publication:
London : Printed by J. Hughs, 1737
Subject(s):
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Gout -- therapy
Belloste, Augustin, 1654-1730.
Sydenham, Thomas, 1624-1689.

15. 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

16. 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

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