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  • Conference : recent developments in prevention and therapy through Maharishi ayur-veda towards a disease-free society : new approaches to the prevention and treatment of heart disease, chronic disorders, cancer, AIDS : Royal College of Physicians, London, Monday 17 October 1988 / World Medical Association for Perfect Health - Great Britain.
  • Conference : recent developments in prevention and therapy through Maharishi ayur-veda towards a disease-free society : new approaches to the prevention and treatment of heart disease, chronic disorders, cancer, AIDS : Royal College of Physicians, London, Monday 17 October 1988 / World Medical Association for Perfect Health - Great Britain.
  • Conference : recent developments in prevention and therapy through Maharishi ayur-veda towards a disease-free society : new approaches to the prevention and treatment of heart disease, chronic disorders, cancer, AIDS : Royal College of Physicians, London, Monday 17 October 1988 / World Medical Association for Perfect Health - Great Britain.
  • Conference : recent developments in prevention and therapy through Maharishi ayur-veda towards a disease-free society : new approaches to the prevention and treatment of heart disease, chronic disorders, cancer, AIDS : Royal College of Physicians, London, Monday 17 October 1988 / World Medical Association for Perfect Health - Great Britain.
  • Vitamalt : the perfect vitamin-food for infants, children and adults : Rich in the essential vitamins A, B, C and D : Especially recommended for delicate and ailing children, nursing & expectant mothers and in all cases of malnutrition and low vitality / Boots Pure Drug Company.
  • Vitamalt : the perfect vitamin-food for infants, children and adults : Rich in the essential vitamins A, B, C and D : Especially recommended for delicate and ailing children, nursing & expectant mothers and in all cases of malnutrition and low vitality / Boots Pure Drug Company.
  • Extraordinary Peruvian relic : just arrived and now exhibiting at the late Mr. Youngs office High St. Rochester : the entire body of a Peruvian woman, perfect as when in life ; supposed to have been buried alive at the remote period of 500 years ago.
  • A lecture introductory to the theory and practice of midwifery : including the history, nature and tendency of that science, with a view of its several branches, and a proper means of attaining a perfect knowledge of the whole together with animadversions on the qualification and deportment of an accoucheur publicly delivered the 4th of October, 1773 / by John Leake.
  • Important notice : one fact is worth twenty arguments, and a fact is that the most pleasing and remarkable exhibition in the known world is now in this town... : to be seen alive, a child with one side perfect while the other side of him is double jointed and a skeleton... also the world's wonder, the female Baby Samson.
  • Important notice : one fact is worth twenty arguments, and a fact is that the most pleasing and remarkable exhibition in the known world is now in this town... : to be seen alive, a child with one side perfect while the other side of him is double jointed and a skeleton... also the world's wonder, the female Baby Samson.
  • A lecture introductory to the theory and practice of midwifery : including the history, nature and tendency of that science, with a view of its several branches, and a proper means of attaining a perfect knowledge of the whole together with animadversions on the qualification and deportment of an accoucheur publicly delivered the 4th of October, 1773 / by John Leake.
  • Mr. Smith's exhibition : to be seen twihin, the Norfolk Giant 17 years of age, 7 feet 2 inches high, and weighs 20 stone, also the African Lady! in her native costume ... also Tom Thumb, the celebrated dwarf, also the extraordinary wonder of the creation, the infant male child & its mother with 2 perfect heads and necks on one body ...
  • Every man his own doctor. In two parts. Shewing I. How every one may know his own constitution and complection, by certain signs. Also the nature and faculties of all food as well meats, as drinks ... The second part shews the full knowledge and cure of the pox ... and obstructions, agues. Shewing their causes and signs ... and perfect cure / [John Archer].
  • Aspirin crystals. Aspirin was originally extracted from willow bark but is actually produced in all plants as a defence mechanism in response to damage or attack. Much higher levels are therefore found in less than perfect fruit and vegetables. Aspirin is used to treat pain, reduce fever and to prevent heart disease and cancer. Some people think it should be reclassified as a vitamin.
  • A compendium of anatomy. Containing a short but perfect view of ... humane bodies. In which all the parts of the human body are succinctly and clearly described and their uses explained / By Laurence Heister. Translated from the last edition of the original Latin ; greatly augmented and improved by the author. To which are added notes by M. Henault [i.e. F.J. Hunauld] and the editor. Illustrated with 8 large copper plates.
  • The government of cattel. Divided into three books. The first, treating of oxen, kine and calves: and how to use bulls, and other cattel, to the yoke or fell. The second, discoursing of the government of horses; with approved medicines against most diseases. The third, discoursing the order of sheep, goats, hogs, and dogs; with true remedies to help the infirmities that befall any of them ... Also, perfect instructions for taking of moals; and likewise for the monthly husbanding of grounds / Gathered by Leonard Mascal.
  • The government of cattel. Divided into three books. The first, treating of oxen, kine and calves: and how to use bulls, and other cattel, to the yoke or fell. The second, discoursing of the government of horses; with approved medicines against most diseases. The third, discoursing the order of sheep, goats, hogs, and dogs; with true remedies to help the infirmities that befall any of them ... Also, perfect instructions for taking of moals; and likewise for the monthly husbanding of grounds / Gathered by Leonard Mascal.
  • Vade mecum: or, a companion for a chyrurgion: fitted for times of peace or war. Compendiously shewing ... the use of every severall instrument ... and the vertues and qualities of such medicines as are needfull ... with the maner [sic] of compounding them ... As also the perfect cure of green wounds, either incised or contused, ulcers, fistulaes, fractures, and dislocations. To which is added the maner [sic] of making reports before a Judge of Assize, of any one that hath come to an untimely end / [Thomas Brugis].
  • Vade mecum: or, a companion for a chyrurgion: fitted for times of peace or war. Compendiously shewing ... the use of every severall instrument ... and the vertues and qualities of such medicines as are needfull ... with the maner [sic] of compounding them ... As also the perfect cure of green wounds, either incised or contused, ulcers, fistulaes, fractures, and dislocations. To which is added the maner [sic] of making reports before a Judge of Assize, of any one that hath come to an untimely end / [Thomas Brugis].
  • Vade mecum: or, a companion for a chyrurgion: fitted for times of peace or war. Compendiously shewing ... the use of every severall instrument ... and the vertues and qualities of such medicines as are needfull ... with the maner [sic] of compounding them ... As also the perfect cure of green wounds, either incised or contused, ulcers, fistulaes, fractures, and dislocations. To which is added the maner [sic] of making reports before a Judge of Assize, of any one that hath come to an untimely end / [Thomas Brugis].
  • Vade mecum: or, a companion for a chyrurgion: fitted for times of peace or war. Compendiously shewing ... the use of every severall instrument ... and the vertues and qualities of such medicines as are needfull ... with the maner [sic] of compounding them ... As also the perfect cure of green wounds, either incised or contused, ulcers, fistulaes, fractures, and dislocations. To which is added the maner [sic] of making reports before a Judge of Assize, of any one that hath come to an untimely end / [Thomas Brugis].
  • Vade mecum: or, a companion for a chyrurgion: fitted for times of peace or war. Compendiously shewing ... the use of every severall instrument ... and the vertues and qualities of such medicines as are needfull ... with the maner [sic] of compounding them ... As also the perfect cure of green wounds, either incised or contused, ulcers, fistulaes, fractures, and dislocations. To which is added the maner [sic] of making reports before a Judge of Assize, of any one that hath come to an untimely end / [Thomas Brugis].
  • Vade mecum: or, a companion for a chyrurgion: fitted for times of peace or war. Compendiously shewing ... the use of every severall instrument ... and the vertues and qualities of such medicines as are needfull ... with the maner [sic] of compounding them ... As also the perfect cure of green wounds, either incised or contused, ulcers, fistulaes, fractures, and dislocations. To which is added the maner [sic] of making reports before a Judge of Assize, of any one that hath come to an untimely end / [Thomas Brugis].
  • Vade mecum: or, a companion for a chyrurgion: fitted for times of peace or war. Compendiously shewing ... the use of every severall instrument ... and the vertues and qualities of such medicines as are needfull ... with the maner [sic] of compounding them ... As also the perfect cure of green wounds, either incised or contused, ulcers, fistulaes, fractures, and dislocations. To which is added the maner [sic] of making reports before a Judge of Assize, of any one that hath come to an untimely end / [Thomas Brugis].
  • Vade mecum: or, a companion for a chyrurgion: fitted for times of peace or war. Compendiously shewing ... the use of every severall instrument ... and the vertues and qualities of such medicines as are needfull ... with the maner [sic] of compounding them ... As also the perfect cure of green wounds, either incised or contused, ulcers, fistulaes, fractures, and dislocations. To which is added the maner [sic] of making reports before a Judge of Assize, of any one that hath come to an untimely end / [Thomas Brugis].
  • The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labors. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. Illustrated with divers fair figures, newly and very correctly engraven in copper. A work very much more perfect than any yet extant in English: very necessary for chirurgeons and midwives practising this art / Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. Translated by Hugh Chamberlen ... By whom this second ed. it [sic] reviewed, corrected, and enlarged, with the addition of the author's anatomy.
  • The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labors. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. Illustrated with divers fair figures, newly and very correctly engraven in copper. A work very much more perfect than any yet extant in English: very necessary for chirurgeons and midwives practising this art / Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. Translated by Hugh Chamberlen ... By whom this second ed. it [sic] reviewed, corrected, and enlarged, with the addition of the author's anatomy.
  • Anthony Colley (Colly). Wash drawing en grisaille attributed to G. P. Harding.
  • Sir Thomas Browne. Stipple engraving by J. Brown after G. P. Harding.
  • Application form : please return to The Conference Secretary, WMAPH, Mentmore, Leighton Buzzard, Beds LU7 0QH.