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3. 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

5. 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

13. 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

15. 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.

17. 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

18. 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

20. 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

22. 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

23. 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

27. An easy way to prolong life: by a little attention to what we eat and drink : containing a chemical analysis : or, an enquiry into the nature and properties of all kinds of food : how far they are wholesome, and agree with the different constitutions : with some directions respecting our way of living : collected from the authorities of some of our ablest physicians

Author(s):
Trusler, John, 1735-1820
Publication:
Printed at Dover : By Samuel Bragg, Jun., for Wm. T. Clap, in Boston, MDCCXCVI [1796]
Subject(s):
Diet
Exercise
Longevity

30. The compleat housewife, or, Accomplished gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of seven hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery, pastry, confectionary, potting, collaring, preserving, pickles, cakes, custards, creams, preserves, conserves, syrups, jellies, made wines, cordials, distilling, brewing : with copper plates, curiously engraven, for the regular disposition or placing of the various dishes and courses : and also, bills of fare for every month in the year : to which is added, a collection of three hundred receipts of medicines, consisting of drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, &c. which, after many years of experience, have been proved to be innocent in their application, and most salutary in their use : with directions for marketing

Author(s):
Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732
Publication:
London : Printed for J. Buckland, J. and F. Rivington, J. Hinton, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, W. Johnston, C. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law, T. Lowndes, S. Bladon, W. Nicoll, and C. and R. Ward, 1773
Subject(s):
Cooking
Medicine

32. The director; or, Young woman's best companion: being the plainest and cheapest of the kind ever published : the whole makes a complete family cook and physican : containing above three hundred easy receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, candying, pickling, collaring, physick, and surgery : to which are added, plain and easy instructions for choosing beef, mutton, veal, fish, fowl, and other eatables : directions for carving, and to make wines : likewise bills of fare for every month in the year : with a complete index to the whole : a book necessary for all families

Author(s):
Jackson, Sarah, active 1754, author
Publication:
London : Printed for S. Crowder; and R. Baldwin, 1770
Subject(s):
Cooking
Medicine, Traditional
United Kingdom

35. Domestic economy, or, A complete system of English housekeeping: containing the most approved receipts, confirmed by observation and practice, in every reputable English book of cookery now extant : besides a great variety of others which have never before been offered to the public : also a valuable collection, translated from the productions of cooks of eminence who have published in France, with their respective names to each receipt : which, together with the original articles, for the most complete system of housekeeping ever yet exhibited, under the following heads, viz. : roasting, boiling, made-dishes, frying, broiling, potting, fricassees, ragouts, soups, sauces, gravies, hashes, stews, puddings, custards, cakes, tarts, pies, pasties, cheesecakes, jellies, pickling, preserving, and confectionary : to which is prefixed, in order to render it as complete and perfect as possible, an elegant collection of light dishes for supper, adapted for every month in the year : also The complete brewer ... likewise The family physician : being a collection of the most valuable and approved prescriptions by Mead, Sydenham, Tissot, Fothergill, Elliot, Buchan, and others

Publication:
London : Printed for J. Creswick, and Co., 1794
Subject(s):
Cooking
Alcoholic Beverages
Medicine, Traditional
United Kingdom

37. The Edinburgh new dispensatory: with the additions of the most approved formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias ; the whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations ; and enriched with the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine ; with new tables of elective attractions, of antimonial and mercurial preparations, &c. ; and several copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments ; being an improvement of the New dispensatory by Dr. Lewis

Author(s):
Lewis, William, 1708-1781
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the stone-house, no. 41, South Second-Street, MDCCXCVI [1796]
Subject(s):
Materia Medica
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Equipment and Supplies
Scotland
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794.

39. A treatise on cattle: showing the most approved methods of breeding, rearing, and fitting for use, asses, mules, horned cattle, sheep, goats, and swine ; with directions for the proper treatment of them in their several disorders : to which is added, a dissertation on their contagious diseases ; carefully collected from the best authorities, and interspersed with remarks

Author(s):
Mills, John, -1784?
Publication:
Boston : Printed and sold by William Spotswood, no. 55, Marlborough-Street, 1795
Subject(s):
Ruminants
Swine
Cattle Diseases
Animal Husbandry

40. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health: but particularly calculated for those, who are the most unlikely to be provided in time with the best assistance, in acute diseases, or upon any inward or outward accident ; with a table of the most cheap, yet effectual remedies, and the plainest directions for preparing them readily

Author(s):
Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797
Publication:
London [i.e., Boston] : Printed [by Mein and Fleeming], in the year MDCCLXVII [1767]
Subject(s):
Medicine
Materia Medica
Health Promotion

42. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health: but particularly calculated for those, who are the most unlikely to be provided in time with the best assistance, in acute diseases, or upon any inward or outward accident ; with a table of the most cheap, yet effectual remedies, and the plainest directions for preparing them readily (Volume 1)

Author(s):
Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797
Publication:
London [i.e., Boston] : Printed [by Mein and Fleeming], in the year MDCCLXVII [1767]
Subject(s):
Medicine
Materia Medica
Health Promotion

43. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health: but particularly calculated for those, who are the most unlikely to be provided in time with the best assistance, in acute diseases, or upon any inward or outward accident ; with a table of the most cheap, yet effectual remedies, and the plainest directions for preparing them readily (Volume 2)

Author(s):
Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797
Publication:
London [i.e., Boston] : Printed [by Mein and Fleeming], in the year MDCCLXVII [1767]
Subject(s):
Medicine
Materia Medica
Health Promotion

49. Domestic medicine, or, The family physician: being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases ; chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines

Author(s):
Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Joseph Crukshank, for R. Aitken, MDCCLXXIV [1774]
Subject(s):
Medicine, Traditional
Disease

50. Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines: with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners

Author(s):
Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed for Joseph Crukshank, Robert Bell, and James Muir, of Philadelphia : and for Robert Hodge, of New-York, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Subject(s):
Medicine, Traditional
Disease

51. Domestic medicine, or, The family physician: being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases ; chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines

Author(s):
Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Publication:
Norwich [Conn.] : Printed by John Trumbull, for Robert Hodge, J. D. M'Dougall and William Green, in Boston, MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Subject(s):
Medicine, Traditional
Disease

52. Domestic medicine or, The family physician: being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases ; chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines

Author(s):
Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by John Dunlap, for R. Aitken, MDCCLXXII [1772]
Subject(s):
Medicine, Traditional
Disease
Gout

53. Domestic medicine, or, The family physician: being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases ; chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines

Author(s):
Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed [by John Dunlap] for and sold by R. Aitken, [1772?]
Subject(s):
Medicine, Traditional
Disease

65. Aristotle's master-piece completed: in two parts ; the first containing the secrets of generation in all the parts thereof ... ; 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:
New-York : Printed for the Company of Flying Stationers, 1793
Subject(s):
Sexual Behavior
Congenital Abnormalities
Midwifery
Reproduction

67. The citizen and countryman's experienced farrier: to all which is added, a valuable and fine collection of the surest and best receipts in the known world for the cure of all maladies and distempers that are incident to horses of what kind soever, with directions to know what is the ailment, or disease

Author(s):
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Publication:
[Wilmington, Del.] : London, printed ; ----- and, Wilmington, re-printed, and sold by James Adams, at his printing-office, 1764
Subject(s):
Animal Husbandry
Horses
Cattle
Horse Diseases -- therapy
Cattle Diseases -- therapy

70. Telliamed, or, The world explain'd: containing discourses between an Indian philospher and a missionary, on the diminution of the sea, the formation of the earth, the origin of men & animals : and other singular subjects, relating to natural history & philosphy ; a very curious work

Author(s):
Maillet, Benoît de, 1656-1738
Publication:
Baltimore : Printed by W. Pechin, no. 15, Market-Street ; for D. Porter, at the observatory, Federal-Hill, 1797
Subject(s):
Natural History
Biological Evolution

79. The catechism of health

Author(s):
Faust, Bernhard Christoph, 1755-1842
Publication:
New York : Printed by R. Wilson, for Samuel Campbell, 124, Pearl-Street, 1798
Subject(s):
Hygiene
Health

81. The afflicted man's companion, or A directory for persons and families, afflicted with sickness or any other distress: with directions to the sick, both under and after affliction ; also, directions to the friends of the sick, and others who visit them ; and likewise to all, how to prepare both for sickness and death ; and how to be exercised at the time of dying ; to which is added, a collection of comfortable texts of Scripture, very suitable for dying believers ; the choice sayings of eminent dying saints ; the author's last advice to his wife and children : and his dying words, written by himself, and found among his papers after his death

Author(s):
Willison, John, 1680-1750
Publication:
Wilmington [Del.] : Printed by Joseph Johnson, 1796
Subject(s):
Religion and Medicine
Attitude to Death
Death
Christianity

82. A compendium of practical and experimental farriery, originally suggested by reason and confirmed by practice: equally adapted for the convenience of the gentleman, the farmer, the groom, and the smith ; interspersed with such remarks, and elucidated with such cases, as evidently tend to insure the prevention, as well as to ascertain the cure of disease

Author(s):
Taplin, William, 1740?-1807
Publication:
Wilmington [Del.] : Printed by Bonsal & Niles, for Robert Campbell, bookseller, Philadelphia, MDCCXCVII [1797]
Subject(s):
Animal Husbandry
Horse Diseases
Horses

84. Medicina Britannica, or A treatise on such physical plants, as are generally to be found in the fields or gardens in Great-Britain: containing a particular account of their nature, virtues, and uses ; together with the observations of the most learned physicians, as well ancient as modern, communicated to the late ingenious Mr. Ray, and the learned Dr. Sim. Pauli ; adapted more especially to the occasions of those, whose condition or situation of life deprives them, in a great measure, of the helps of the learned

Author(s):
Short, Thomas, 1690?-1772
Publication:
[Philadelphia] : London printed : Philadelphia re-printed, and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, at the post-office, in Market-Street, MDCCLI [1751]
Subject(s):
Botany
Plants, Medicinal
Phytotherapy

85. God glorified in his works of providence and grace: a remarkable instance of it, in the various and signal deliverances, that evidently appear to be wrought for Mrs. Mercy Wheeler, of Plainfield ; who was restored from extreme impotence, and long confinement ; published at the desire of many

Author(s):
Lord, Benjamin, 1694-1784
Publication:
[Hartford] : Boston : printed in the year 1743 ; Hartford : re-printed by Elisha Babcock, 1798
Subject(s):
Religion and Medicine
Wheeler, Mercy, 1706-1796.

87. The dreadful visitation, in a short account of the progress and effects of the plague: the last time it spread in the city of London, in the year 1665 ; extracted from the memoirs of a gentleman who resided there during the whole time of that infection : with some thoughts on the advantage which would result to Christianity, if a spirit of impartiality and true charity was suffered to preside amongst the several religious denominations, &c

Author(s):
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Henry Miller ..., MDCCLXVII [1767]
Subject(s):
Plague
History, 17th Century
London

88. An astronomical diary, kalendar, or almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1793: adapted to the horizon and meridian of New-Haven, lat. 41 deg. 19 min. north, and longit. 73 deg. 14 min. westward of the Royal Observatory, or Flamsted-House in Greenwich, according to the latest observations : but (without sensible error) may serve indifferently for all the towns in Connecticut, and the adjacent states

Author(s):
Strong, Nehemiah, 1729-1807
Publication:
New-Haven : Printed and sold by T. & S. Green, [1792]
Subject(s):
Forecasting
Astrology
Breast Feeding
Connecticut

90. Observations on the emigration of Dr. Joseph Priestley, and on the several addresses delivered to him, on his arrival at New-York, with additions: containing many curious and interesting facts on the subject, not known here, when the first edition was published : together with a comprehensive story of a farmer's bull

Author(s):
Cobbett, William, 1763-1835
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by Thomas Bradford, 1795
Subject(s):
Politics
Emigration and Immigration
History, 18th Century
United States
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.

91. The millenial door thrown open or, The mysteries of the latter day glory unfolded: in a discourse, delivered at East-Windsor, state of Connecticut, July Fourth, 1799 ; the twenty-third year of the declaration of the independence of the United States : in which event was laid the corner stone of the national temple, under whose auspices all worshippers of God are allowed full indulgence : and from which springs the temple of the living God, into whose bosom the nations of the earth are to bring their glory and their honor

Author(s):
Austin, David, 1759-1831
Publication:
East-Windsor [Conn.] : Printed by Luther Pratt, July, 1799
Subject(s):
Bible
Religion
Anniversaries and Special Events
Holidays
United States

93. The American oracle: comprehending an account of recent discoveries in the arts and sciences, with a variety of religious, political, physical, and philosophical subjects, necessary to be known in all families, for the promotion of their present felicity and future happiness

Author(s):
Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809
Publication:
New-York : Printed for, and sold by Hodge and Campbell, Berry and Rogers, and T. Allen., MDCCXCI [1791]
Subject(s):
History
Natural History
Medicine
Science
United States

97. Aristotle's master piece completed: in two parts ; the first, containing the secrets of generation in all the parts thereof ... ; the second part ; 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 the kind hitherto published

Publication:
New-York : Printed for the United Company of Flying Stationers, MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Subject(s):
Sexual Behavior
Congenital Abnormalities
Midwifery
Reproduction

99. The dreadful visitation in a short account of the progress and effects of the plague: the last time it spread in the city of London in the year 1665 extracted from the memoirs of a person who resided there, during the whole time of the infection : with some thoughts on the advantage which would result to Christianity, if a spirit of impartiality and true charity was suffered to preside amongst the several religious denominations, &c

Author(s):
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Publication:
Germantown [Pa.] : Printed by Chr. Sower, 1763
Subject(s):
Plague
History, 17th Century
London

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