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Mary Squires the fortune teller foretells the future to Sir John Hill: she indicates that she has support from the Lord Mayor of London. Etching, 1753.

Sir John Hill. Stipple engraving after F. Cotes 1757.

Sir John Hill (above); and the White House at Kew (below). Engraving by G. Vendramini, 1799, after F. Cotes 1757.

An injured patient, John Hill, in bed surrounded by a group of physicians. Etching by Clyster-Pipe after Bolus M.D., 1752.

Sir John Hill. Mezzotint by R. Houston after F. Cotes, 1757.

Sir John Hill being attacked by Mountefort Brown at the entrance to Ranelagh Rotunda. Process print after engraving by Telltruth after Clody.

The letters and papers of Sir John Hill, 1714-1775 / edited with commentary by G.S. Rousseau.

Concubitus sine Lucina, ou le plaisir sans peine. Réponse à la lettre intitulée Lucina sine concubitu [by Abraham Johnson, i.e. Sir John Hill. Signed Richard Roe.] / [Richard Roe].

The notorious Sir John Hill : the man destroyed by ambition in the era of celebrity / George Rousseau.

A letter from Henry Woodward, comedian, the meanest of all characters; (see Inspector, No.524.) to Dr. John Hill, Inspector-General of Great-Britain, the greatest of all characters; (see all the Inspectors.)

The sick man's companion; or, useful director for unhealthy persons. Being an account of several innocent and valuable medicines / [John Hill].

The book of nature; or, the history of insects: reduced to distinct classes, confirmed by particular instances, displayed in the anatomical analysis of many species, and illustrated with copper-plates ... / by John Swammerdam, M.D. With the life of the author, by Herman Boerhaave, M.D. Translated from the Dutch and Latin original edition by Thomas Flloyd.

The construction of timber, from its early growth; explained by the microscope, and proved from experiments, in a great variety of kinds: in five books. On the parts of trees; their vessels; and their encrease by growth: and on the different disposition of those parts in various kinds; and the particularities in their vessels. With figures of their various appearances; of the instrument for cutting them; and of the microscope thro' which they were viewed / [John Hill].

The virtues of honey in preventing many of the worst disorders; and in the certain cure of several others ... the gravel, asthmas ... consumptions, etc / to which is prefix'd an account of the origin and nature of honey; its various kinds, English and foreign; and the marks which distinguish them: also a method to obtain honey as fine in England as from any part of the world; and the best ways of taking it. With the genuine receipt for the syrup of capillaire as made in Italy; and for the celebrated Aristaean confection. [Anon].

Culpeper's English family physician; or medical herbal enlarged, with several hundred additional plants / principally from Sir John Hill ... And a new dispensatory, from the MS. of Dr. Saunders ... By Joshua Hamilton.

The actor: a treatise on the art of playing. Interspersed with theatrical anecdotes, critical remarks on plays, and occasional observations on audiences.

Virtues of British herbs. With the history, description, and figures of the several kinds; An Account of the Diseases they will cure; The Method of giving them; and Management of the Patients in each Disease: Containing Cures of Head-Achs by Feverfew Tea, with Two Singular Instances. Cures of Consumptions by Coltsfoot Tea, Hectic Fevers by the Daisy, Colics by Leaves of Chamomile, And Agues by its Flowers. A Recommendation of the Bidens Cernua to supply the Place of the Ceylon Acmella, so celebrated in the Gravel; but not to be had with us. And a Case, with all its Circumstances and Symptoms, of the Hooping - Cough, cured by a Tea of the fresh Root of Elecampane. The Whole illustrating that important Truth, That the Plants of our own Country will cure all its Diseases. To which are added, Cautions against the Two Othonnas, destructive of Sheep. A Work intended to be useful to the Sick, and to their Friends; to private Families; and to the Charitable, who would help their Neighbours. No.1. - To be continued occasionally, as new Virtues are discovered in Plants; or neglected, or doubtful ones ascertained by Experience. By John Hill, M. D. Member of the Imperial Academy.

Virtues of British herbs. With their history, and figures, and an account of the diseases they will cure; containing, cures-of consumptions by coltsfoot tea; of hectic fevers by the ... of colics by leaves of chamomile; of agues by its flowers. And a case, of the hooping cough, cured by a tea of the fresh root of elecampane. Cures-of the gravel by a tea of golden-rod; of the scurvy by ...; of the piles by yarrow; an account of the eminent virtues of petasite root in pestilential and all other fevers, and the plague itself: of tanzy for the worms; consound as a vulnerary; and an instance of a stomach-complaint cured by a tea of the flowers of sweet feverfew. By John Hill, M.D. member of the Imperial Academy.

The sleep of plants, and cause of motion in the sensitive plant, explain'd ... In a letter to C. Linnaeus ... / [John Hill].

Hypochondriasis. A practical treatise on the nature and cure of that disorder; commonly called the hyp and hypo. By J. Hill, M.D.

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The actor: a treatise on the art of playing. Interspersed with theatrical anecdotes, critical remarks on plays, and occasional observations on audiences.

The sleep of plants, and cause of motion in the sensitive plant, explain'd ... In a letter to C. Linnaeus ... / [John Hill].

Hypochondriasis. A practical treatise on the nature and cure of that disorder; commonly called the hyp and hypo. By J. Hill, M.D.