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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

5. Letters to married women

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

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