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2. 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)

3. 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

10. 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)

11. An account of the tenia or long tape worm: and of the method of treating it as practised at Morat in Switzerland : being a translation of a memoir published at Paris entitled "Traitementcontre le tenia ou ver solitaire, pratiquè a Morat en Suisse, examinè et eprouvè a Paris, publiè ordre du roi"

Author(s):
Lassone, Joseph-Marie-François de, 1717-1788, author
Mottet, M., author
Publication:
London : Printed for J. Wilkie, MDCCLXXVII [1777]
Subject(s):
Taeniasis -- therapy
Nouffer, Madame.

13. The adventures of Mrs. Tend----: being an impartial answer to a letter to her friend : in which are exhibited some remarks worthy the attention of the curious, her conduct with that of Tend----'s fairly laid open, the injured characters vindicated, and submitted to the public : also letters which passed between them, with some moral reflections

Author(s):
Gentleman, active 1768, author
Publication:
Dublin : Printed for S. Buck, MDCCLXVIII [1768]
Subject(s):
Marriage
Divorce
Kingsman, Dorothea.
Tenducci, Giusto Ferdinando, approximately 1735-1790.

14. 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

18. Aristotle's book of problems: with other astronomers, astrologers, physicians, and philosophers : wherein is contained divers questions and answers touching the state of man's body : together with the reasons of divers wonders in the creation : the generations of birds, beasts, fishes, and insects, and many other problems on the most weighty matters, by way of question and answer

Publication:
London : Printed for J. W. J. K. D. M. A. B. E. R. M. R. T. L. B. M. and A. W., [176-?]
Subject(s):
Physiological Phenomena

19. 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 ... : the second part being A private looking-glass for the female sex

Publication:
Glasgow : [publisher not identified], MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Subject(s):
Midwifery
Sex Education
Congenital Abnormalities

24. 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

30. Cautions to the public against new attempts to substitute a spurious preparation for the original syrup of Mr. de Velnos: the recipe for which has been purchased of Dr. Mercier ... by the author, Isaac Swainson, sole proprietor of Velnos' Original Vegetable Syrup

Author(s):
Swainson, Isaac, 1746-1812, author
Publication:
[London?] : [publisher not identified], MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Subject(s):
Counterfeit Drugs
England
Mercier, Peter.
Velnos, Jean-Joseph Vergely de.

31. Chemical essays: being a continuation of my reflections on fixed fire, with observations and strictures upon Drs. Priestley's, Fordyce's, Pearson's, and Beddoes's late papers in the Philosophical transactions : and an answer to the reviewers

Author(s):
Harrington, Robert, 1751-1837
Publication:
London : Printed for T. Faulder ... J. Murray ... J. Evans ... and W. Creech, Edinburgh, [1793]
Subject(s):
Chemistry
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.

42. A disquisition on remedies which dissolve the stone, in the human bladder: wherein the different medicinal substances and compositions, recommended for this intention, are impartially scrutinized : and their respective lithontriptic virtues ascertained

Author(s):
Swieten, Gerard, Freiherr van, 1700-1772, author
Publication:
London : Printed for John Williams, MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Subject(s):
Urinary Bladder Calculi -- therapy
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Urinary Bladder Calculi -- etiology
United Kingdom
Stephens, Joanna, -1774.

43. A dissertation on the disorders which affect the neck of the bladder, the urinary passage, and the neighbouring parts: producing excrescences in the urethra ... ; likewise hollow flexible catheters or bougies are made by the author ... ; a proper liquid for injection is also prepared by Francis Lallier

Author(s):
Lallier, Francis.
Publication:
London : Sold by Mr. Nicoll ; Mr. Axtell, [1785?]
Subject(s):
Urinary Catheterization
Equipment and Supplies
Urinary Bladder Neck Obstruction

47. An English Fellow's answer to a Scotch licentiate's letter: or, a vindication of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London, from the charge of iniquity brought against the Fellows of the said College, in the said letter

Publication:
London : Printed for J. Roberts, MDCCLIII [1753]
Subject(s):
Education, Medical -- ethics
Fellowships and Scholarships -- ethics
Licensure, Medical -- ethics
Royal College of Physicians of London.
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
University of Oxford.
University of Cambridge.

54. 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

56. 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

58. 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)

60. A guide to health, or, Advice to both sexes in a variety of complaints: with an essay on the venereal disease, gleets, seminal weakness, and that destructive habit called onanism : likewise, an address to parents, tutors, and guardians of youth

Author(s):
Solomon, Samuel, -approximately 1818
Publication:
London : Printed for the author, and sold by Mathews ... H.D. Symonds ... and all the booksellers in Great-Britain and America, [1797?]
Subject(s):
Health Promotion
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Masturbation -- prevention & control

69. An historical essay on the dropsy

Author(s):
Wilkes, Richard, 1691-1760
Publication:
London : Printed for B. Law ... and G. Ray ..., 1781
Subject(s):
Edema

72. 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.

75. It was my original intention, in discussing the subject, not to advert to any particular instance of the Caesarian operation: but, in consequence of the intruduction of my name, and that of Mr. Ogden, into the account of the case lately published by Mr. Wood in the fifth volume of the Memoirs of the Medical Society of London, I feel myself called upon to say a few words in reply

Author(s):
Simmons, W. (William), 1762-1830
Publication:
Manchester : Printed by Sowler & Russell ..., [1799]
Subject(s):
Cesarean Section
Gangrene

81. Laws, rules, and orders, for the government of the Westminster New Lying-In Hospital, near Westminster Bridge: instituted in the year 1765 : collected and revised by a committee ... and confirmed ... the 6th of March 1793

Author(s):
Westminster New Lying-In Hospital.
Publication:
London : Printed by J. Smeeton ..., 1793
Subject(s):
Hospitals, Voluntary -- organization & administration
Constitution and Bylaws
London
Westminster New Lying-In Hospital.

83. Letters to married women

Author(s):
Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789, author
Publication:
London : Printed for the author, and sold by G. Kearsley, MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Subject(s):
Child Rearing
Breast Feeding

84. 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).

89. Nature's assistant to the restoration of health in a variety of complaints: to which is added, An address to parents, tutors, and schoolmasters, with advice to young men and boys, respecting a destructive habit of a private nature

Author(s):
Hodson, J. (James), author
Publication:
London : Printed by E. Hodson, Sold by J. Deighton ... J. Matthews ... T. Tutt ... all booksellers in Great-Britain, Ireland, and America, [1794]
Subject(s):
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Masturbation -- prevention & control

90. 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
Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- drug therapy
Masturbation -- prevention & control

93. A new theory of acute and slow continued fevers: wherein, beside the appearance of such, and the manner of their cure, occasionally, the structure of the glands, and the manner of laws of secretion, the operation of purgative, vomitive, and mercurial medicines, are mechanically explained : to which is prefix'd An essay concerning the improvements of the theory of medicine

Author(s):
Cheyne, George, 1671 or 1672-1743, author
Publication:
London : Printed for W. Otridge, 1766
Subject(s):
Fever -- etiology
Fever -- therapy
Medicine

97. Observations on fevers: with an attempt to prove, that the dangerous symptoms and fatal effects, produced by those diseases, generally happen through a deficiency in the materia medica, and propositions for preventing those symptoms and effects, by a safe, easy and immediate cure

Author(s):
White, R., active 1763-1777, author
Publication:
London : Printed for John Wilkie, [1777]
Subject(s):
Fever -- etiology
Fever -- prevention & control
Materia Medica

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