Medicine - Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
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Observations on the superior efficacy of the red Peruvian bark , in the cure of agues and other fevers. Interspersed with occasional remarks on the treatment of other diseases by the same remedy. And an appendix, containing a more particular account of its natural history. By William Saunders, M.D. F.R.S. Member of the Royal College of Physicians in London, and physician to Guy's Hospital. [One line in Latin from Horace].
Saunders, William, 1743-1817.Date: [1783]- E-books
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A thousand notable things . Containing modern curiosities. viz. Divers rare and experienced physical receipts. Monthly observations in gardening, planting, and grafting. To catch birds, fish, &c. To kill bugs, rats, mice, and all sorts of vermin. To make white-wine, claret, mead, cyder, punch, &c. The virtues and use of Dulwich waters. To take spots out of linen, wollen, paper, or parchment. Rules for the preservation of health. To make all sorts of ink, wax, and wasers. To educate children to learn languages speedily. Riddles, jests and stories. To dye bone. To order, encrease, and preserve bees. To make corn produce a tripple crop. How to make Covent-Garden purl, and Dr Butler's ale. How to make old people look young. To make leather last long. To make fine pictures. How to order all manner of pickles. To make window-sashes. The art of dying, colouring, perfuming, and gilding. With above nine hundred other curiosities, on various subjects. Also a new help to discourse, and directions to read, write, indite, and speak languages readily and speedily. Together with an alphabetical table to the whole, for the finding all the matters herein with ease.
Thomas LuptonDate: 1748- E-books
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A thousand notable things , on various subjects; disclosed from the secrets of nature and art; practical, profitable, and of great advantage; ..
Thomas LuptonDate: 1799- E-books
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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. By William Buchan, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
William BuchanDate: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- E-books
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A thousand notable things , on various subjects; disclosed from the secrets of nature and art; ..
Thomas LuptonDate: 1785