Traditional medicine - Early works to 1800

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The accomplish'd lady's delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery
Hannah WoolleyDate: 1675
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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 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 Table for the Ladies at the late Instalment at Windsor, the Lord Mayor's Table, and other Hall Dinners in the City of London; with a Fish Table, &c. By Charles Carter, Lately Cook to his Grace the Duke of Argyle, the Earl of Pontefract, the Lord Cornwallis, &c. To which is added by way of appendix, Near Two Hundred of the most approv'd Receipts in Physick and Surgery for the Cure of the most common Diseases incident to Families: The collection of a Noble Lady Deceased. A Work design'd for the Good, and absolutely Necessary for all Families.
Carter, CharlesDate: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]
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The young ladies school of arts Containing, a great variety of practical receipts, in gum-flowers filligree japanning Shell-Work Gilding Painting Cosmetics Jellies Preserves Cakes Cordials Creams Jamms Pickles Candying Made Wines Clear Starching, &c. Also, a great many Curious Receipts, both useful and entertaining, never before published. By Mrs Hannah Robertson.
Robertson, Hannah, 1724-1800?.Date: M,DCC,LXVII. [1767]