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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)

4. 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

8. An account of the Benevolent Institution: with a list of the governors annexed

Author(s):
Benevolent Institution for the Sole Purpose of Delivering Poor Married Women at Their Own Habitations (London, England), author.
Publication:
[London] : [Smeeton, printer ...], [1800]
Subject(s):
Charities -- organization & administration
Midwifery -- organization & administration
Home Childbirth
Benevolent Institution for the Sole Purpose of Delivering Poor Married Women at Their Own Habitations (London, England)

13. 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)

15. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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

20. The anatomy of melancholy: what it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & severall cures of it : in three partitions, with their severall sections, members & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened & cut up

Author(s):
Burton, Robert, 1577-1640, author
Publication:
London : Printed for John Garway, [1660]
Subject(s):
Emotions
Depression -- etiology
Depression -- therapy
Mental Disorders
Temperament

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

32. The Attila of the gout

Author(s):
Marten, John, -1737
Publication:
London : Printed for the author, and sold by N. Crouch ... M. Atkins ... P. Varenne ... C. King ... J. Isted ... A. Bettesworth ..., 1713
Subject(s):
Gout -- etiology
Gout -- therapy

33. Bartholinus anatomy: made from the precepts of his father, and from the observations of all modern anatomists : together with his own : with one hundred fifty and three figures, cut in brass, much larger and better than any have been heretofore printed in English : in four books and four manuals, answering to the said books

Author(s):
Bartholin, Thomas, 1616-1680, author
Publication:
London : Published by Nich. Culpeper ... and Abdiah Cole ... printed by Peter Cole ..., 1665
Subject(s):
Anatomy
Blood Circulation

37. A Boke of the propreties of herbes called an herball: wherunto is added the time ye herbes, floures and sedes shold be gathered to be kept the whole yere, wyth the vertue of ye herbes when they are stilled ; also a generall rule of all maner of herbes drawen out of an auncyent booke of phisyck

Publication:
Imprynted at London ... : by me Wyllyam Copland for Rychard Kele, [not after 1552]
Subject(s):
Plants, Medicinal
Materia Medica

40. 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

47. 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.

49. 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.

50. Choice and profitable secrets both physicall, and chirurgical: formerly concealed, by the deceased Dutchess of Lenox, and now published for the use and benefit of such as live far from physicians and chirurgions : being approved of by eminent doctors, and published by their charitable advice for the publique good : whereunto is annexed, A discovery of the natures and properties of all such herbs which are most commonly known, and grow in countrey gardens

Author(s):
Wood, Owen, active 1639, author
Publication:
London : Printed for the use and benefit of William Masters, 1658
Subject(s):
Materia Medica
Plants, Medicinal

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