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  • Table in which various maladies and their treatments are summarized within interlinear and intercolumnar rules in gold and with extensive commentaries in the upper and lower margins.
  • Table in which various maladies and their treatments are summarized within interlinear and intercolumnar rules in gold and with extensive commentaries in the upper and lower margins.
  • Ten golden rules of health : No.2 explained : ...the importance of wholemeal bread, fruits, and vegetables in a perfect dietary / by Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, Bart.
  • The history of health, and the art of preserving it, or, an account of all that has been recommended by physicians and philosophers, towards the preservation of health, from the most remote antiquity to this time. To which is subjoined, a succinct review of the principal rules relating to this subject. Together with the reasons on which these rules are founded / by James Mackenzie.
  • My arse, my rules! : Most gay men enjoy getting fucked. Getting fucked doesn't mean that you have no control or reponsibility. Express yourself / GMFA, MetroM8, London Gay Men's HIV Prevention Partnership.
  • The Virgin of Mercy responding to the intercessions of saints by protecting people from arrows symbolising disease; the Devil rules below, where plague attacks the land. Lithograph after L. Dottorini after Benedetto Bonfigli, 1464 (?).
  • Rules for preserving the health of the aged by means of air, clothing, diet, employment, the evacuations, etc. &c. And also hints for the alleviation and prevention of those disorders by which old age is usually assailed, without the aid of medicine / Translated from the French. Of J.A. Salgues.
  • An essay on the diseases most fatal to infants. To which are added rules to be observed in the nursing of children: with a particular view to those who are brought up by hand ... / [George Armstrong].
  • Medicina flagellata: or, the doctor scarify'd. Laying open the vices of the Faculty, the insignificancy of a great part of their materia medica; with certain rules to discern the true physician from the emperick, and the useful medicine from the noxious and trading physick. With an essay on health, or the power of a regimen. To which is added, a discovery of some remarkable errors in the late writings on the plague / by Dr. Mead, Quincey, Bradley, etc. With some useful and necessary rules to be observed in the time of that contagious distemper.
  • Medicina flagellata: or, the doctor scarify'd. Laying open the vices of the Faculty, the insignificancy of a great part of their materia medica; with certain rules to discern the true physician from the emperick, and the useful medicine from the noxious and trading physick. With an essay on health, or the power of a regimen. To which is added, a discovery of some remarkable errors in the late writings on the plague / by Dr. Mead, Quincey, Bradley, etc. With some useful and necessary rules to be observed in the time of that contagious distemper.
  • The Key to unknowne knowledge. Or, a shop of five windowes ... Consisting of five necessarie treatises: namely, 1. The Judgement of urines. 2. Judiciall rules of physicke. 3. Questions of oyles. 4. Opinions for curing of harquebush-shot. 5. A discourse of humane nature.
  • The Key to unknowne knowledge. Or, a shop of five windowes ... Consisting of five necessarie treatises: namely, 1. The Judgement of urines. 2. Judiciall rules of physicke. 3. Questions of oyles. 4. Opinions for curing of harquebush-shot. 5. A discourse of humane nature.
  • The friendly physician. A new treatise: containing rules, schemes, and particular instructions, how to select and furnish small chests with the most approved necessary medicines; and full directions how to apply them. To which are added many excellent receipts for particular disorders / [Francis Spilsbury].
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Orders, thought meete by Her Maiestie, and her privie Councell, to be executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague ... Also, an advise set downe ... by the best learned in physicke ... contayning sundry good rules and easie medicines.
  • Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. To which are added, one hundred physiognomonical rules, a posthumous work by Mr. Lavater; and memoirs of the life of the author, compiled principally from the life of Lavater, by G. Gessner.
  • Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. To which are added, one hundred physiognomonical rules, a posthumous work by Mr. Lavater; and memoirs of the life of the author, compiled principally from the life of Lavater, by G. Gessner.
  • Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. To which are added, one hundred physiognomonical rules, a posthumous work by Mr. Lavater; and memoirs of the life of the author, compiled principally from the life of Lavater, by G. Gessner.
  • A prognostication everlasting of right good effect, fruitfully augmented by the author, containing plaine, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules to iudge the weather by the sunne, moone, starres, comets, rainbow, thunder, clowdes, with other extraordinary tokens, not omitting the aspects of planets, with a briefe iudgement for ever, of plentie, lacke, sicknes, dearth, warres, &c. opening also many naturall causes worthie to be knowne ... / corrected and augmented by Thomas Digges his sonne.
  • The sources of English monastic life in the rule of Saint Benedict, and those who have embraced the rule: family tree. Etching by W. Hollar, 1655.