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203. The practice of physick, or, the law of God (called nature) in the body of man: confuting by manifest and manifold experiences many learned men, as well as the authors, the rules and methods conserning sicknesses and changes in mans body ... : In the second part of this book is a Practice of physick, drawn from the best of moderns ... : to which is added, A treatise of diseases from witchcraft

Author(s):
Drage, William, 1637?-1669, author
Publication:
London : Printed for George Calvert, 1666
Subject(s):
Physiology
Disease -- etiology
Witchcraft

206. 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

207. Man and woman their own doctor, or, a salve for every sore: being a book full of rare receipts for the most dangerous distempers incident to the bodies of men, women, and children : and very fit to be in all families, in this crasie, sickly, and bad times : gathered out of the library of that famous traveller, Docter Ponteous ; and now published for the good, and benefit of all people whatsoever

Author(s):
Ponteus, John, author
Publication:
London : Printed for L. White ..., 1676
Subject(s):
Materia Medica
Plants, Medicinal
Disease
Cattle Diseases -- therapy

210. 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

211. 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

212. The whole of Aristotle's compleat master-piece: in three parts : displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man : regularly digested into chapters and sections, rendering it far more 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, and containing many new recipes, not inserted in any other edition of this book

Publication:
London : [publisher not identified], Printed in the year MDCCLXXX [1780]
Subject(s):
Midwifery
Sex Education
Congenital Abnormalities
Physiognomy

213. A practical treatise or, Second thoughts on the consequences of the venereal disease: in three parts ... ; to which is annex'd a vindication of the practice of salivating

Author(s):
Cam, Joseph, -1743
Publication:
London : Printed for the author ; and sold by G. Strahan ..., W. Mears ..., C. King ..., Edw. Midwinter ..., and Mrs. Baker ..., [1724?]
Subject(s):
Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- therapy
Mercury -- therapeutic use
Chicoyneau, François, 1672-1752.
Willoughby, C.

214. A rational and useful account of the venereal disease: with observations on the nature, symptoms, and cure ... ; also a short enquiry into old gleets, and other weaknesses ... ; to which are added, some hints on the practical scheme, the methods and medicines therein expos'd ... ; with an account of specificks

Author(s):
Cam, Joseph, -1743
Publication:
London : Printed for, and sold by G. Strahan ..., W. Mears ..., C. King ..., T. Norris ..., and J. Baker ..., [1724?]
Subject(s):
Sexually Transmitted Diseases

221. [Cour]se of lectures upon midwifery: wherein the theory and practice of that art are explain'd in the clearest manner ; more particularly, the structure of the pelvis and uterus ; of the foetus in utero, and after parturition ; the management of child-bearing women, during pregnancy, in time of labour, and after delivery ; the manner of delivering women, in all the variety of natural, difficult, and preternatural labours, perform'd on different machines made in imitation of real women and children

Author(s):
Smellie, William, 1697-1763
Publication:
[London? : s.n.], printed in the year MDCCXLII [1742]
Subject(s):
Midwifery -- education

229. 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

242. The poor man's physician, or the receipts of the famous John Moncrief of Tippermalloch: being a choice collection of simple and easy remedies for most distempers ... : to which is added, the method of curing the small pox and scurvy, by the eminent Dr. Archibald Pitcairn

Author(s):
Moncrief, John, apothecary
Publication:
Edinburgh : Printed for John Paton, 1716
Subject(s):
Medicine, Traditional
Pharmaceutical Preparations

247. 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

249. The Compleat midwife's practice enlarged: in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man : containing a perfect directory, for rules for midwives and nurses : and also a guide for women in their conception, bearing and nursing of children : from the experience of our English authors : viz. Sir Theodore Mayern, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich. Culpeper, and other foreign nations : with instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter, a little before her death, touching the practice of the said art : as also a farther discovery of those secrets kept close in the breast of Sir Theodore Mayern, Mr. Nicholas Culpeper, and other English writers, not made publick 'till now

Author(s):
Chamberlayne, Thomas, author
Publication:
London : Printed for R. Bentley ..., H. Rhodes ..., J. Philips ..., and J. Taylor ..., 1697
Subject(s):
Obstetrics
Midwifery
Chamberlen, Hugh.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.

250. Some observations on the case of the brethren of the Corporation of Barber Surgeons, Dublin: who petitioned the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and the Board of Aldermen against several arbitrary and illegal acts done in the said corporation, by John Wright and Richard Thompson, when masters thereof : and by John Conliff and William Lisle Wardens : who upon the demise of the said Thompson, in a very arbitrary and fraudulent manner pretended to elect William Hemming master of said corporation : together with a few reflections on the answer of John Wright, published by him in person, Saturday the 24th of January last

Author(s):
Philalethes, active 1719, author
Publication:
Dublin : [publisher not identified], Printed in the year, 1719
Subject(s):
Barber Surgeons
Societies -- organization & administration
Fraud
Ireland
Thompson, Richard, -1718.
Wright, John, active 1719.
Guild of St. Mary Magdalene (Dublin, Ireland).

254. A little book of rare receipts for the cure of several distempers: viz, The King's evil, stone, chollick, black and yellow jaundice, piles, ague, worms, black thrush in children's mouths, breakings out in their infancy, rickets, small-pox, the itch, etc. : set forth for the benefit of all poor Christians

Author(s):
Parsons, Giles.
Publication:
[London] : Printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red-Lyon on London-Bridge, [1710?]
Subject(s):
Cooking
Pharmaceutical Preparations

255. 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

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