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105. 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

135. 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

139. 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

143. 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

144. 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

145. 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)

147. 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)

152. A plain and practical discovery of the nature and cause of the secret disease: to which is appended, The grand impostor discover'd ; being remarks upon The practical and philosophical scheme of the secret disease : wherein is made appear ... the insufficiency of that author's royal specifick, ... to perform any radical cure, &c

Publication:
[London] : This book is given away gratis to any one that will but ask for it, at Mr. Lovell's, a toy-shop, over-against Great Suffolk-Street End near the Hay-Market, by Pall-Mall ; and at Mr. Jeremiah Pain's, a toy-shop, at the Bunch of Grapes in Popes-Head-Alley, over-against the Royal-Exchange, Cornhill, [1718?]
Subject(s):
A practical and philosophical scheme of the secret disease
Sexually Transmitted Diseases

153. 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

154. 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.

158. 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.

164. Kick for kick, and cuff for cuff: a clear stage, and no favour, or, a refutation of a bombastical scurrilous postscript, wrote by one who calls himself Gabriel John, others still will have it Daniel Defoe, which he calls Reflections on my Hudibrastick reply, to his Flagellum or dry answer to Dr. Hancocke's Liquid book

Author(s):
Taylor, Thomas, active 1723
Publication:
London : Printed by Eliz. Rumball, for Tho. Croush ... J. Isted, 1723
Subject(s):
Hancocke, John, -1728.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

165. 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)

178. 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

180. 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.

181. 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

187. 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

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