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  • The devil's own : scenes from the farce of life, or facts are stubborn thing, exposing a few only of the secret doings of those cursed human vultures called lawyers.
  • The milk of human kindness..? : the routine suffering of dairy cows and their calves is one of the biggest and dirtiest secrets of the modern farming industry / Animal Aid.
  • The milk of human kindness..? : the routine suffering of dairy cows and their calves is one of the biggest and dirtiest secrets of the modern farming industry / Animal Aid.
  • Onanism: or, a treatise upon the disorders produced by masturbation, or, The dangerous effects of secret and excessive venery / by M. Tissot. Translated from the last Paris edition by A. Hume.
  • Above, Alexis of Piedmont and Albertus Magnus; centre, William Harvey and Francis Bacon drawing aside a curtain to reveal secrets; below, Dr. R. Read, Johann Jacob Wecker, Ramon Lull. Etching by R. Gaywood, 1660.
  • The secret is out, you can be Asian and gay : rejected by my family for not being straight, loved by my boyfriend for being gay / The Naz Project London ; photography by: Parminder Sekhon.
  • Aristotle's compleat master-piece. In three parts : Displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man, regularly digested into chapters and sections ... To which is added A treasure of health; or, the family physician ... / [Aristotle].
  • Les plus nouvelles decouvertes dans le regne vegetal, ou observations microscopiques sur les parties secretes de la generation des plantes renfermées dans leurs fleurs et sur les insectes qui s'y trouvent ... / Traduit de l'allemand ... par M. Verdier de la Blaquiere.
  • Les plus nouvelles decouvertes dans le regne vegetal, ou observations microscopiques sur les parties secretes de la generation des plantes renfermées dans leurs fleurs et sur les insectes qui s'y trouvent ... / Traduit de l'allemand ... par M. Verdier de la Blaquiere.
  • Astro-meteorologica, or aphorism's and discourses of the bodies coelestial, their natures and influences. Discovered from the variety of the alterations of the air, temperate, or intemperate, as to heat and cold ... sickness epidemical, maculae solis, and other secrets of nature / [J. Goad].
  • Seven vignettes illustrating phrenological propensities: tune, covetiveness, secretiveness, size, firmness, time, weight; illustrated by an organ-grinder, a pick-pocket, an adulterer, the huge Daniel Lambert, a pavior with his rammer, a winged clock, a crown on a cushion. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826, after himself.
  • Seven vignettes illustrating phrenological propensities: tune, covetiveness, secretiveness, size, firmness, time, weight; illustrated by an organ-grinder, a pick-pocket, an adulterer, the huge Daniel Lambert, a pavior with his rammer, a winged clock, a crown on a cushion. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826, after himself.
  • Memoire sur l'usage œconomique du digesteur de Papin / donnée au public par la Société des Belles-Lettres, Sciences et Arts de Clermont-Ferrand. Par M. ***, avoc. anc. sécret. de la même Société et auteur des Ouvertures de paix universelle [i.e. F.G. Quériau].
  • Eighteen books of the secrets of art and nature, being the summe and substance of naturall philosophy, methodically digested / First designed by John Wecker and now much augmented and inlarged by Dr. R. Read. [Translated by William Rowland] ; a like work never before in the English tongue.
  • The Queens closet opened. Incomparable secrets in physick, chirurgery, preserving, candying, and cookery ; as they were presented to the Queen by the most experienced persons of our times ... / Transcribed from the true copies of Her Majesties own receipt-books, by W.M. one of her late servants.
  • The Queens closet opened. Incomparable secrets in physick, chirurgery, preserving, candying, and cookery ; as they were presented to the Queen by the most experienced persons of our times ... / Transcribed from the true copies of Her Majesties own receipt-books, by W.M. one of her late servants.
  • The Queens closet opened. Incomparable secrets in physick, chirurgery, preserving, candying, and cookery ; as they were presented to the Queen by the most experienced persons of our times ... / Transcribed from the true copies of Her Majesties own receipt-books, by W.M. one of her late servants.
  • The English remedy: or, Talbor's wonderful secret, for cureing [sic] of agues and feavers / Sold by the author Sir Robert Talbor, to the Most Christian King, and since his death, ordered by His Majesty to be published in French [with observations by A. d'Aquin] ... And now translated into English. [Anon].
  • The Queens closet opened. Incomparable secrets in physick, chirurgery, preserving, candying, and cookery ; as they were presented to the Queen by the most experienced persons of our times ... / Never before published. Transcribed from the true copies of her Majesty's own receipt-books, by W.M. one of her late servants.
  • The English remedy: or, Talbor's wonderful secret, for cureing [sic] of agues and feavers / Sold by the author Sir Robert Talbor, to the Most Christian King, and since his death, ordered by His Majesty to be published in French [with observations by A. d'Aquin] ... And now translated into English. [Anon].
  • Quatre livres des secrets de medecine et de la philosophie chimique / Faicts françois par M. Jean Liebault ... Esquels sont descrits plusieurs remedes singuliers poru toutes maladies tant interieures qu'exterieures du corps humain ... les manieres de destiller eaux, huyles, et quintes essences de toute sorte de matieres: faire les extractions, les sels artificiels, et l'or potable.
  • Hermippus redivivus, or, the sage's triumph over old age and the grave. Wherein, a method is laid down for prolonging the life and vigour of man. Including, a commentary upon an antient inscription, in which this great secret is revealed; supported by numerous authorities. The whole interspersed with a great variety of remarkable, and well-attested relations / [Anon].
  • An orange background bearing the white lettering: "Vous pouvez parler librement du SIDA, de la sexualité et de la toxicomanie. Votre médecin est tenu au secret professionnel." [You can talk freely of AIDS, sexuality and drug addiction. Your doctor is bound by professional secrecy]; an advertisement by the Swiss Physicians [FMH] and Swiss Federal Office of Public Health [OFSP]. Colour lithograph.
  • An alphabetical book of physicall secrets, for all those diseases that are most predominant and dangerous (curable by art) in the body of man / Collected for the benefit, most especially of householders in the country ... as likewise for the help of such ladies ... who of charity labour to doe good. Whereunto is annexed a small treatise of the judgement of urines.
  • [Keiromantia sic]: or, the art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man .... Wherein you have the secret concordance, and harmony betwixt it, and astrology, made evident in 19 genitures. Together with a ... discourse of the soul of the world .... / Written originally in Latine ... and now faithfully Englished, by Geo. Wharton.
  • The private medical friend, or, A warning voice to young men : an essay on the errors of youth and the secret infirmities of the generative organs, resulting from solitary habits, youthful excess, or infection, with practical observations on the premature failiure of sexual power illustrated with many cases in proof of the Author's succesful mode of treatment / by Henry Smith.
  • Medicina diastatica or sympatheticall mumie: containing, many mysterious and hidden secrets in philosophy and physick. By the construction, extraction, transplantation and application of microcosmical & spiritual mumie. Teaching the magneticall cure of diseases at distance, etc / Abstracted from the works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus: by the labour and industry of Andrea Tentzelius ... Translated out of the Latine by Ferdinando Parkhurst.
  • The secretes of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont [pseud.? i. e. Girolamo Ruscelli?] Containing excellent remedies against divers diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the manner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, dyinges, colours, fusions, and meltinges. A worke well approved, verye profitable and necessarie for everye man. Newely corrected and amended, and also somewhat enlarged in certaine places, whiche wanted in the fyrst edition / Translated oute of Frenche into Englyshe, by William Warde.
  • The newe jewell of health, wherein is contayned the most excellent secretes of phisicke and philosophie, devided into fower bookes. In the which are the best approved remedies for the diseases as well inwarde as outwarde, of all the partes of mans bodie: treating very amplye of all dystillations of waters, of oyles, balmes, quintessences ... Gathered out of the best and most approved authors / ... Faithfully corrected and published in Englishe, by George Baker, Chirurgian.
  • The newe jewell of health, wherein is contayned the most excellent secretes of phisicke and philosophie, devided into fower bookes. In the which are the best approved remedies for the diseases as well inwarde as outwarde, of all the partes of mans bodie: treating very amplye of all dystillations of waters, of oyles, balmes, quintessences ... Gathered out of the best and most approved authors / ... Faithfully corrected and published in Englishe, by George Baker, Chirurgian.