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108. The compleat housewife, or, Accomplished gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of seven hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery, pastry, confectionary, potting, collaring, preserving, pickles, cakes, custards, creams, preserves, conserves, syrups, jellies, made wines, cordials, distilling, brewing : with copper plates, curiously engraven, for the regular disposition or placing of the various dishes and courses : and also, bills of fare for every month in the year : to which is added, a collection of three hundred receipts of medicines, consisting of drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, &c. which, after many years of experience, have been proved to be innocent in their application, and most salutary in their use : with directions for marketing

Author(s):
Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732
Publication:
London : Printed for J. Buckland, J. and F. Rivington, J. Hinton, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, W. Johnston, C. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law, T. Lowndes, S. Bladon, W. Nicoll, and C. and R. Ward, 1773
Subject(s):
Cooking
Medicine

109. The new book of cookery, or, Every woman a perfect cook: containing the greatest variety of approved receipts in all the branches of cookery and confectionary, viz. : boiling, roasting, broiling, frying, stewing, hashing, baking, fricassees, ragouts, made-dishes, soups, sauces, puddings, pies, tarts, cakes, custards, preserving, candying, drying, potting, collarding, English-wines, &c. ... : to which are added, the best instructions for marketing, and sundry modern bills of fare : also directions for clear-starching and improving beauty : likewise a collection of phisical [sic] receipts for families, &c. : the whole calculated to assist the prudent housewife and her servants, in furnishing the cheapest and most elegant set of dishes in the various departments of cookery, and to instruct ladies in many other particulars of great importance too numerous to mention in this title page

Author(s):
Price, Elizabeth, Mrs
Publication:
London : Printed for the authoress, and sold by Alex. Hogg ... and may be had of all other booksellers, [178-?]
Subject(s):
Cooking

114. An enumeration of the principal vegetables, and vegetable productions, that may be substituted, either in part or wholly, in place of wheat and other bread-corn, in times of scarcity: with short notices respecting the best modes of preparing them for use

Author(s):
Author of Some information on the use of Indian corn, author
Publication:
Birmingham : Printed and sold by Thomas Pearson; sold also by R. Baldwin, and L.B. Seeley, Pater-Noster Row, London, MDCCXCVI [1796]
Subject(s):
Vegetables
Cooking
Triticum
United Kingdom

125. El Exmô. Señor virey me ha comunicado el Oficio y Despacho adjunto del tenor siguiente: el despacho librado por esta superioridad, para que los Justicias de su Gobernacion expresen con distincion y claridad las deudas que hay en sus distritos tocantes al Medio Real de Ministros y demas que manifiesta

Author(s):
New Spain. Corregidor (Mexico City) author.
Publication:
[Mexico] : [publisher not identified], [1788]
Subject(s):
Hospitals, Public -- economics
Financing, Government
Indians, North American
Mexico
Hospital Real de Indios (Mexico City, Mexico)

126. El Rey: Virrey, governador y capitan general de las provincias de la Nueva-España, y presidente de mi Real audiencia que reside en la ciudad de México : En carta de veinte y seis de septiembre del año proxímo pasado disteis cuenta con testimonio de que con otra de veinte y siete de diciembre del de mil setecientos setenta y tres acompañásteis el respectivo al expediente suscitado por el general de la Orden de San Hipólito Mártir de esas provincias, sobre reedificar el hospital en que á su cuidado se curan los dementes

Author(s):
Spain. Sovereign (1759-1788 : Charles III) author.
Publication:
[Mexico] : [publisher not identified], [10 July 1776]
Subject(s):
Hospitals, Psychiatric
Mexico
Hospital de San Hipólito (Mexico City, Mexico)

127. Reglamento que se deduce del expediente formado por mí sobre establecer una Casa, ú Hospital de Convalecencia para la tropa, extramuras de Veracruz: en el parage nombrado los moralillos, inmediato á los ranchos que llaman de la virgen, y de Moreno, distante does leguas de la ciudad

Author(s):
New Spain. Viceroy (1779-1783 : Mayorga) author.
Publication:
[Mexico] : [publisher not identified], [1781]
Subject(s):
Hospitals, Military
Mexico
Hospital de Convalecencia (Veracruz, Veracruz-Llave, Mexico)

129. 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

134. The young surgeons dictionary; or, Pupil's instructor: wherein their terms are explained from the best Greek authors; and an introduction to anatomy, by inserting the definition of the structure of man. To which is prefixed, a catalogue of drugs, chemical and Galenical, in Latin and English: together with rules for chemical experiments, and a table of all the characters used in surgery and physic

Publication:
London : Printed for J. Browne ..., [1782?]
Subject(s):
General Surgery
Pharmaceutical Preparations

136. 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

138. A list of the governors of the Benevolent institution for the sole purpose of delivering poor married women, at their own habitations: established January 1780

Author(s):
Benevolent Institution for the Sole Purpose of Delivering Poor Married Women at Their Own Habitations (London, England) author.
Publication:
London : [publisher not identified], Printed in the year MDCCXCI [1791]
Subject(s):
Charities -- organization & administration
Midwifery -- organization & administration
Home Childbirth
London
Benevolent Institution for the Sole Purpose of Delivering Poor Married Women at Their Own Habitations (London, England)

139. Dissertatio medica inauguralis de calore animalium: quam, favente summo numine, auctoritate dignissimi Vice-Cancellarii Nigelli Campbell V.D.M. S.S.T. Professoris Primarii, et academiae praefecti : nec non Amplissimi Senatus Academici consensu, et nobilissimae facultatis medicae decreto, progradu doctoratus summisque in medicina privilegiis, et honoribus, rite ac legitime consequendis

Author(s):
Garner, Jacobus, author
Publication:
Glasguae : Excudebant Rob. et And. Foulis Academiae Typographi, MDCCLV [1755]
Subject(s):
Blood Circulation
Body Temperature Regulation
Scotland

144. Essai sur le mouvement

Author(s):
Chamboissier, Jean Baptiste.
Publication:
A Londres [i.e. Paris] : Et se trouve à Paris, chez Jombert, jeune, et à Lyon, chez Grabit, MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Subject(s):
Movement

162. Josephi Demarco medici melitensis philosophiae ... De lana ritè in secunda, & adverse valetudine adhibenda: opus, quo villosae vestis nudi contactus, praestantia, & actio staticae experimentis perspicuè, utilitates fusè demonstrantur, noxae diligenter expenduntur ; adjecta est ad calcem Disertatio de use, et abusu chocolatae in re medica, & morali

Author(s):
Demarco, Giuseppe.
Publication:
Melitae : In palatio, & ex typographia C.S.S. MDCCLIX ; apud D. Nicolaum Capacium ejus typographum, [1759]
Subject(s):
Cacao
Wool

168. An essay, on the most effectual means, of preserving the health of seamen, in the Royal Navy: containing, cautions necessary for those who reside in, or visit, unhealthy situations : with directions, proper for the security of all such, as attend sick persons in fevers : and an appendix of observations, on the treatment of diseases in hot climates

Author(s):
Lind, James, 1716-1794 author
Publication:
London : Printed for A. Millar ... and A. Kincaid, and A. Donaldson, in Edinburgh, MDCCLVII [1757]
Subject(s):
Naval Medicine
Communicable Disease Control
Tropical Medicine
Great Britain. Royal Navy

176. An account of the institution and proceedings of the Guardians of the Asylum or House of Refuge, situate in the parish of Lambeth, in the County of Surry: for the reception of orphan girls, whose settlements cannot be found

Author(s):
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)
Publication:
[London] : Printed by order of the Guardians : at the Logographic Press, Blackfriars, 1786
Subject(s):
Orphanages -- organization & administration
Child, Orphaned
England
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)

177. A general state of the corporation of the London-Hospital, for the reception and relief of sick and wounded seaman, manufacturers, and labouring poor their wives and children: from its institution, November, M,DCC,XL, to the first of January, M,DCC,XCVI : with a list of the governors, &c

Author(s):
London Hospital (Whitechapel, London, England)
Publication:
London : Printed by J. and J. March ..., 1796
Subject(s):
Hospitals, Voluntary -- organization & administration
London Hospital (Whitechapel, London, England)

182. Candid invitations to serious and unbiased reflections, concerning the great and dreadful increase, malignancy and direfull effects of fevers, and other epidemick diseases: which yearly destroy great numbers of all ranks and degrees, age and sex : with important inquiries, remarks and observations on the causes therof : to which is added : reasons and motives to demonstrate the necessity of putting an immediate stop to their growing progress ... : recommended to the serious and unbiased consideration of all who may think the means for preserving life and health

Author(s):
White, R., active 1763-1777
Publication:
London : [s.n.], MDCCLXIII [1763]
Subject(s):
Epidemics -- prevention & control
Disease -- etiology
United Kingdom

185. Advice to booksellers, perfumers, &c. not to sell any more stamps with their medicines, (patent ones excepted) nor the public to pay for them: founded on constitutional principles, with strictures on the Medicine Act, respectfully submitted to His Most Gracious Majesty, and both Houses of Parliament

Author(s):
Spilsbury, Francis.
Publication:
London : Sold by G. Wilkie ... ; and other booksellers, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Subject(s):
Legislation, Pharmacy
History, 18th Century
Nonprescription Drugs
Taxes -- legislation & jurisprudence
England

186. An abstract of the methods of curing diseases of the eyes, legs and breasts: and on the cure of cancerous, scrophulous and other chronic diseases, by mild internal remedies : to which are added, observations on the dangerous effects of altering the accustomed diet of patients and the ill effects of salt water, hemlock, &c

Author(s):
Rowley, William, 1742-1806
Publication:
London : Printed for F. Newbery ..., 1774
Subject(s):
Leg Ulcer -- therapy
Eye Diseases -- therapy
Chronic Disease -- therapy
Diet Therapy -- adverse effects

188. The inefficacy of all mercurial preparations in the cure of venereal and scorbutic disorders, proved from reason and experience: with a dissertation on Mr. de Velnos's vegetable syrup, which radically cures every species of the above disorders ; and an accurate analysis of that medicine ... ; to which are added, a refutation of Dr. Burrows's late scurrilous pamphlet

Author(s):
Saffory, Henry.
Publication:
London : To be had of Mr. Evans ; Mr. Corrall ; and of Mr. Southern, MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Subject(s):
Mercury -- adverse effects
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Burrows, John, M.D.
Velnos, Jean-Joseph Vergely de.

190. Nature's assistant to the restoration of health: to which is added a short treatise on the venereal disease, recommending a safe, easy, and proper mode of treatment : also an essay on gleets, seminal weaknesses, and the destructive habit of self-pollution

Author(s):
Hodson, J. (James)
Publication:
London : Published by J. Matthews ... and sold by all other booksellers in Great Britain, [1789]
Subject(s):
Nonprescription Drugs
Masturbation -- prevention & control
Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- drug therapy

193. An abstract from the account of the Asylum, or, House of Refuge, situate in the parish of Lambeth, in the county of Surry: instituted in the year 1758, for the reception of friendless and deserted orphan girls, the settlement of whose parents cannot be found

Author(s):
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)
Publication:
[London] : Printed by order of the Guardians, 1799
Subject(s):
Orphanages -- organization & administration
Child, Orphaned
England
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)

200. A short essay on the virtues of Dr. Norris's drops for fevers: to which are added, letters and certificates of many extraordinary cures, among a great number of others not made public, incontestibly proving their sovereign efficacy in fevers, &c

Author(s):
Norris, Thomas, active 1780
Publication:
London : Printed for the author, and to be had at his house, or at his laboratory, and by all other vendors of these drops, most of whose names are inserted at the end of this essay, 1783
Subject(s):
Antimony -- therapeutic use
Fever -- drug therapy