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2. A serious address, on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds, with ample directions for the prevention and cure of consumptions: to which are added, observations on the hooping cough and asthma

Author(s):
Hayes, Thomas, active 1783-1786
Publication:
[Boston] : From the press of Samuel Etheridge, no. 9, Newbury-Street ; for John West, no. 75, and Caleb Bingham, no. 4, Cornhill, Boston, 1796
Subject(s):
Common Cold
Whooping Cough
Asthma
Tuberculosis -- prevention & control

3. Every man his own physician: being a complete collection of efficacious and approved remedies for every disease incident to the human body ; with plain instructions for their common use

Author(s):
Theobald, John, -1760
Publication:
[Boston] : London : printed for W. Griffin, in Catherine-Street ; Boston, New-England : printed for Cox and Berry, almost opposite the post-office, MDCCLXVII [1767]
Subject(s):
Medicine
Materia Medica

5. The gentleman farrier's repository, of elegant and approved remedies for the diseases of horses: in two books ... ; with suitable remarks on the whole ; to which are now added ; observations on broken-winded horses, endeavouring to prove the seat of that malady not to be in the lungs

Author(s):
Bartlet, J. (John), 1716?-1772
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, MDCCLXXV [1775]
Subject(s):
Horse Diseases
Animal Husbandry
Horses

9. 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:
Printed at Walpole, Newhampshire : By D. Carlisle, Jun. for Thomas & Andrews, in Boston, and said Thomas, in Worcester; sold by Thomas & Andrews, in Boston ; by said Thomas, in Worcester ; by Thomas, Andrews & Butler, Baltimore ; and by Thomas, Andrews & Penniman, Albany, 1796
Subject(s):
Materia Medica
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Equipment and Supplies
Scotland
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794.

10. Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, or, the London dispensatory: further adorned by the studies and collections of the fellows now living, of the said college

Author(s):
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
Publication:
Boston : Printed by John Allen, for Nicholas Booone [sic], at the Sign of the Bible in Cornhill ; Daniel Henchman over-against the Brick Meeting-House ; and John Edwards, at the Sign of the Light-House, 1720
Subject(s):
Materia Medica
Pharmaceutical Preparations
London

11. Arbustrum Americanum: the American grove, or, an alphabetical catalogue of forest trees and shrubs, natives of the American United States, arranged according to the Linnaean system : containing, the particular distinguishing characters of each genus, with plain, simple and familiar descriptions of the manner of growth, appearance, &c. of their several species and varieties ; also, some hints of their uses in medicine, dyes, and domestic oeconomy

Author(s):
Marshall, Humphry, 1722-1801
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets, MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Subject(s):
Trees -- classification
Phytotherapy
United States

13. The New-England farrier, or, A compendium of earriery [sic], in four parts: wherein most of the diseases to which horses, neat cattle, sheep and swine are incident, are treated of ; with medical and surgical observations thereon ; the remedies, in general, are such as are easily procured, safely applied, and happily successful ; being the result of many years experience ; and first production of the kind in New-England ; intended for the use of private gentlemen and farmers

Author(s):
Jewett, Paul.
Publication:
Newburyport [Mass.] : Printed by William Barrett, at his printing-office Merrimack-Street, MDCCXCV [1795]
Subject(s):
Horse Diseases
Animal Husbandry

15. An almanack for the year of our Lord 1701: calculated for and fitted to the meridian of Boston in New-England, where the North Pole is elevated 42 gr. 30 min. ; but may indifferently serve any part of New-England

Author(s):
Tulley, John, 1638-1701
Publication:
Boston : Printed by B. Green, & J. Allen sold at the printing-house at the south end of the town, 1701 [i.e., 1700?]
Subject(s):
Forecasting
Bloodletting
New England

20. 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:
Philadelphia : Printed for Robert Cambell [sic] & Co, 1797
Subject(s):
Animal Husbandry
Horse Diseases
Horses

23. The medical pocket-book: containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body : including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues and doses of medicinal compositions and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order

Author(s):
Elliot, John, 1747-1787
Publication:
Printed at Boston : By Manning & Loring, for Thomas & Andrews, Faust's Statue, no. 45, Newbury-Street, 1795
Subject(s):
Medicine

24. The medical pocket-book: for those who are, and for all who wish, to be, physicians ; containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body : including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues, and doses, of medicinal compositions, and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order

Author(s):
Elliot, John, 1747-1787
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Subject(s):
Medicine

25. 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 sudden 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:
Philadelphia : Printed [by John Dunlap] for John Sparhawk, MDCCLXXI [1771]
Subject(s):
Medicine
Materia Medica

26. The medical pocket-book: containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body. Including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues and doses of medicinal compositions and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order

Author(s):
Elliot, John, 1747-1787
Publication:
Boston : Printed by Joseph Bumstead, for David West, no. 36, Marlborough-Street, and E. Larkin, Jun. no. 50, Cornhill, 1791
Subject(s):
Medicine

27. Der Freund in der Noth, oder Zweyter Theil, des neuen auserlesenen gemeinnützigen Hand-Büchleins: darinnen allerhand Arten solcher nützliche Kenntnisse und Wissenschaften zu finden, die alle Gattungen von Menschen, wes Standes, Geschlechts und Alter er ist, nahe angehet, und beydes Nuzen [sic] und Vergnügen schaffen wird ; von welchen der Inhalt auf folgenden Seiten, und mehrere Nachricht in dem Vorbericht befindlich ist ; für die deutsche Nation in America

Author(s):
Hirte, Tobias.
Publication:
Germantaun [Pa.] : Gedruckt bey Peter Leibert, 1793
Subject(s):
Medicine, Traditional
Animal Husbandry

29. The Edinburgh new dispensatory: with explanatory, critical, and practical observations on each : together with the addition of those formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias, which are held in highest esteem in other parts of Europe ; the whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations, and enriched by the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine ; with new tables of elective attractions, of antimony, of mercury, &c. ; and copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments ; being an improvement upon the New dispensatory of Dr. Lewis

Author(s):
Lewis, William, 1708-1781
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by T. Dobson, at the stone-house, no. 41, in Second-Street, MDCCXCI [1791]
Subject(s):
Materia Medica
Equipment and Supplies
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Scotland

30. 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.

33. 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

34. Nachrichters, oder Nutzliches und aufrichtiges Ross-Artzney-Büchlein: in welchem die meisten innerliche Krankheiten und äusserliche Zustände der Ross aufs deutlichste beschrieben und erkläret werden ... ; welchem annoch beygefüget ein Anhang von Rind-Viehs Artzneyen, wie auch vor Schafe, Säue, Gäntze, u. Hüner, samt einem dienlichen Register

Author(s):
Deigendesch, Johannes.
Publication:
Germantown [Pa.] : Zum zweyten Mal gedruckt bey Christoph Saur, 1771
Subject(s):
Horse Diseases
Cattle
Animal Husbandry

35. 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

37. 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.

38. 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

46. The American instructor, or, Young man's best companion: containing, spelling, reading, writing and arithmetic, in an easier way than any yet published ; and how to qualify any person for business, without the help of a master ; instructions to write variety of hands ... ; how to write letters on business or friendship ; forms of indentures ... releases, &c. ; also merchant's accompts, and a short and easy method of shop and book-keeping ; with a description of the several American colonies ; together with the carpenter's plain and exact rule ... ; likewise the practical gauger made easy ... ; to which is added, The poor planter's physician ... and also prudent advice to young tradesmen and dealers ; the whole better adpated to these American colonies, than any other book of the like kind

Author(s):
Fisher, George, accomptant
Publication:
New-York : Printed and sold by H. Gaine, at the Bible and Crown, in Hanover-Square, MDCCLXX [1770]
Subject(s):
Mathematics
Accounting
Commerce

47. Medical advice to the inhabitants of warm climates, on the domestic treatment of all the diseases incidental therein: with a few useful hints to new settlers, for the preservation of health, and the prevention of sickness

Author(s):
Thomas, Robert, 1753-1835
Publication:
Nassau, New-Providence : Printed and sold by John Wells, MDCCXCIV [1794]
Subject(s):
Disease
Emigration and Immigration
African Continental Ancestry Group
Tropical Climate
West Indies -- epidemiology

51. 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.

53. 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

54. 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

56. The art of preserving health: a poem

Author(s):
Armstrong, John, 1709-1779
Publication:
[Philadelphia] : London, printed : Philadelphia, re-printed, and sold by B. Franklin, MDCCXLV [1745]
Subject(s):
Health Promotion

60. 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

61. 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

66. 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

67. The complete family-piece: and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide : in three parts ... : with a complete alphabetical index to each part : the whole, being faithfully collected by several very eminent and ingenious gentlemen, is now first published, at their earnest desire, for the general benefit of mankind

Publication:
London : Printed, and sold by J. Roberts ..., 1736
Subject(s):
Agriculture
Cooking
Medicine

69. 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

74. The country housewife and lady's director: in the management of a house, and the delights and profits of farm : containing, instructions for managing the brew-house ... : directions for the dairy ... : the ordering of fish, fowl, herbs, roots ... : practical observations concerning distilling ... : with particular remarks relating to the drying or kilning of saffron

Author(s):
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732, author
Publication:
Dublin : Printed by J. Watts, and sold opposite the Watch-house the North-side of College-Green, and by R. Norris, and William Smith, 1727
Subject(s):
Cooking
Agriculture
Distillation
United Kingdom

75. The compleat city and country cook, or, Accomplish'd housewife: containing several hundred of the most approv'd receipts in cookery, confectionary, cordials, cosmeticks, jellies, pastry, pickles, preserving, syrups, English wines, &c., illustrated with forty-nine large copper plates directing the regular placing [of] the various dishes on the table from one to four or five courses, also, bills of fare according to the several seasons for every month of the year : likewise, the horse-shoe shaped table for the ladies at the late installment at Windsor

Author(s):
Carter, Charles.
Publication:
London : Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch and C. Davis ... T. Green ... and S. Austen ..., 1732
Subject(s):
Cooking
Cosmetics
United Kingdom

76. 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

77. 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

78. 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

81. 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

84. 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

88. 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

92. 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

96. 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

99. 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

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