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153. 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

179. Aristotle's compleat and experienc'd midwife: in two parts : I. a guide for child-bearing women, in the time of theor conception, bearing and suckling their children : with the best means of helping them, both in natural and unnatural labours : together with suitable remedies for the various indispositions of newborn infants : II. proper and safe remedies for the curing all those distempers that are incident to the female sex : and more especially those that are any obstruction to their bearing of children : a work far more perfect than any yet extant, and highly necessary for all surgeons, midwives, nurses, and child-bearing women

Publication:
London : Printed, and sold by the booksellers, [1740?]
Subject(s):
Midwifery
Reproduction
Obstetrics
Infant Care

183. 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

187. A plain and short treatise of an apoplexy, convulsions, colick, twisting of the guts, poisons, bleeding at nose, vomiting of blood, stone in the kidneys, quinsey, mother-fits, miscarriage, hard labour, acute diseases of women in childbed: and several other dangerous and violent diseases that come of a sudden, and require present help : shewing the sick or by-standers what ought presently to be done : together with proper remedies for each disease, and plain directions for the use of them

Author(s):
Pechey, John, 1655-1716
Publication:
[London] : Printed for the author and sold at his house in Bow-Lane, Cheapside ..., 1708

188. 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

189. 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)

191. 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)

195. The fourteenth edition of an essay, on the nature and cure of scrophulous disorders, commonly called the king's evil: deduced from long observation and practice : with additions : and above sixty cases : the remedies in them used, and occasional remarks : to which is prefixed a coloured plate of the herb vervain, and its root : published for the good of mankind, particularly the common people

Author(s):
Morley, John, -1776, author
Publication:
London : Printed for James Buckland, 1775
Subject(s):
King's Evil
Medicine, Traditional
Plants, Medicinal
London

199. A hole to creep out at from the late Act of Parliament against geneva, and other spirituous liquors: by a new dram far better than gin, and a new punch, far wholesomer than either brandy, rum, or arrack punch ; this book given gratis up one pair of stairs, at the sign of this anodyne necklace over-against Devreux-Court, without Temple-Bar ; and at Mr. Bradshaw's Stoughton's, & Daffy's Elixir Ware-House, under the back piazza of the Royal Exchange

Publication:
London : Printed by J. Hughs, 1736
Subject(s):
Alcoholic Beverages
Analgesics
Chamberlen, Paul, 1635-1717.

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