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101. 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.

106. 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

108. 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

111. 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

115. 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

116. 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

117. 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)

118. 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)

121. 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

124. 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

125. 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

126. 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.

127. A sure guide, or, the best and nearest way to physick and chirurgery: that is to say, the art of healing by medicine, and manual operation : being an anatomical description of the whole body of man, and its parts, with their respective diseases, demonstrated from the fabrick and use of the said parts : in six books

Author(s):
Riolan, Jean, 1580-1657, author
Publication:
London : printed by Peter Cole ..., 1665
Subject(s):
Medicine
Surgical Procedures, Operative

129. Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, or, The London dispensatory: further adorned by the studies and collections of the fellows, now living in the said colledg : being that book by which all apothecaries are bound to make up all the medicines in their shops

Author(s):
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654, author
Publication:
London : printed by Peter Cole ..., 1665
Subject(s):
Materia Medica -- administration & dosage
Dispensatories
United Kingdom

130. 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.

132. 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

135. The virtues of common water, or, The advantages thereof, in preventing and curing many distempers: gathered from the writings of several eminent physicians, and also from more than forty years experience : to which is added some rules for preserving health by diet

Author(s):
Smith, John, 1647 or 1648-1727?
Publication:
Dundee : Printed by T. Colvill and Son for G. Milln, Bookseller, 1799
Subject(s):
Water
Drinking
Hydrotherapy
Diet

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

137. 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)

138. 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

141. 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

143. Mémoire, &c

Author(s):
Chaulnes, Louis-Marie-Joseph-Romain d'Albert d'Ailly, duc de, 1741-1792
Publication:
[London? : s.n., 1783?]
Subject(s):
Salts
Phosphoric Acids

147. 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.

156. Detection of a conspiracy, to suppress a general good in physic, and to promote error and ignorance in that important science: being the singular case of John Tennant, M.D. : which was brought against him, maliciously, a trial at the Old Bailey for bigamy

Author(s):
Tennent, John, 1710-1748, author
Publication:
London : Printed for the author, MDCCXLIII [1743]
Subject(s):
Dissent and Disputes
Marriage
United Kingdom
United States
Tennent, John,

158. Description de la vision

Author(s):
Degravers, Peter.
Publication:
A Londres : Chez Shorn ..., 1776
Subject(s):
Vision, Ocular

161. 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

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

165. A psalm of thanksgiving, to be sung by the children of Christ's-Hospital: on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in Easter holy-days, according to ancient custom, at St. Mary Spittle, for their founders and benefactors,1678. The true report of the great number of poor children, and other poor people, maintained in the several hospitals, under the pious care of the Lord Mayor, commonality, and citizens of the City of London, the year last past

Publication:
London : Printed by William Godbid, 1678
Subject(s):
Hospitals, Religious
Child Welfare
Disabled Persons
London
St. Bartholomew's Hospital (London, England)
Christ's Hospital (London, England)
St. Thomas' Hospital (London, England)
Bridewell Royal Hospital
Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)

166. 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.

175. 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

177. 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.

178. 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

183. 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

187. 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 make publick, incontestibly proving their sovereign efficacy in fevers, &c

Author(s):
Norris, Thomas, active 1780, author
Publication:
London : Printed for the author, and given gratis by Messrs. Fielding and Walker, booksellers ..., MDCCLXXVIII [1777]
Subject(s):
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Fever

197. 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

198. A compendyous regyment or dyatorye of healthe: used at Mountpylour

Author(s):
Boorde, Andrew, 1490?-1549
Publication:
[London] : Imprynted by me Robert Wyer, dwellyng at the sygne of S. John Euangelyst, in the Duke of Suffolkes tentes, besyde Charynge Crosse ..., [ca. 1550]
Subject(s):
Diet

199. The secrets of Albertus Magnus: of the vertues of hearbs, stones, and certain beasts : whereunto is newly added a short discourse of the seven planets gove[r]ning the nativities of children : also a book of the same authour, of the marvailous things of the world, and of certaine things caused of certaine beasts

Publication:
London : Printed by R. Cotes, and are to be sold by Fulke Clifton, at his shop on Newfishstreet-hill, 1650
Subject(s):
Medicine
Therapeutics

200. A rich storehouse, or, treasury for the diseased: wherein is discovered 69. rare secrets to cure most diseases : many of them never before in print : set forth for the benefit of all those that shall make use of them by a well-wisher of his country

Author(s):
Aymes, John, author
Publication:
London : Printed by E. Crowch, and are to be sold by F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clark, 1676
Subject(s):
Medicine, Traditional
Ointments
Horses

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