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Early nineteenth century papers relating to unidentified patients
Date: c.1800 - 1835Reference: RET/6/19/2/2/1Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
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Wits interpreter: the English Parnassus. Or, A sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing : In which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love, are made easie in the following subjects: viz. 1. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements. 2. The labyrinth of fancies, new experiments and inventions. 3. Apollo and Orpheus, several love-songs, epigrams, drollerys, and other verses. 4. Cyprian goddess, description of beauty. 5. The muses Elizium, severall poetical fictions. 6. The perfect inditer, letters a la mode. 7. Games and sports now us'd at this day among the gentry of England, &c. 8. Cardinal Richeleiu's key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers. As also an alphabetical table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities; all which are collected with industry and care, for the benefit and delight of those that love ingenious enterprises. The 3d edition with many new additions, by J.C.
Cotgrave, John, active 1655Date: MDCLXXI. [1671]- Books
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Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus : or, a sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse, or writing. In which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love are made easie in the following subjects. I. The art of reasoning, a new logick. 2. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements. 3. The labyrinth of fancies, new experiments and inventions. 4. Apollo and Orpheus severall love-songs, epigrams, drolleries, and other verses. 5. Cyprian Goddess, description of beauty. 6. The muses Elizium, severall poeticall fictions. 7. The perfect inditer, letters ala-mode. 8. Cardinal Richeleiu's [sic] Key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers. As also an alphabeticall table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities; all which are collected with industry and care, for the benefit and delight of those that love ingenious enterprises. By I.C.
Cotgrave, John, active 1655Date: 1655- Books
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The gentlewomans companion; or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age: viz. As, children to parents. Scholars to governours. Single to servants. Virgins to suitors. Married to husbands. Huswifes to the house. Mistresses to servants. Mothers to children. Widows to the world. prudent to all. With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, a guide for cook-maids, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general. The third edition. By Hannah Woolley.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1682
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A dissertation on comets, extracted from the writings of the most eminent modern astronomers and philosophers. In a letter to a reverend professor. To which is prefixed the theory of a comet / by [according to the sentiments of] Sir Isaac Newton [and other ... astronomers].
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]- Books
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Englands golden treasury: or, The true vade mecum : Being the most necessary and useful pocket-companion ever published; for the use and advantage of gentlemen, tradesmen, and others: furnished with variety of tables of accompt, trade, merchandize, merchants goods, weights and measures of all kinds, measuring timber, stone, building, acres of land, miles, &c. in all their circumstances. A table of constant tide in the havens of England, Scotland, Ireland, and adjacent parts. An exact table of the moveable terms and feasts for twelve years to come. Tables of interest, annuity, wages and expences: reducing pounds into pence, shillings, farthings, &c. with many rarities of divers natures. An exact catalogue of the fairs of England and Wales, more perfect than ever: also the market-towns and market-days, with the roads and post-miles; prises of post-letters and post-days: choice precedents of bills, bonds, and all manner of useful writings, with many other things very useful, profitable and necessary.
Date: 1699- Books
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A book of knovvledge : In four parts. Part first; Shewing the nature of astrology by the cœlestial signs and planets. Measures of time. ...The manner of resolving doubtful questions, relating to love, business, &c. Moles and marks in the body, their signification. Dreams, their interpretation. Part second. The wheel of fortune, resolving questions in astrology. ... Observations on New-years-day. Part third. A treatise of phisick, by the signs and planets. Observations in midwifery. ... The forms of writing bonds, bills, &c. Arithmetick in all its parts. ... An account of all the market-days, roads, and fairs in England and Wales. Part fourth. The compleat gardiner, of the country-man's guide to good husbandry. Composed by Sam. Strangehopes.
Strangehopes, SamuelDate: 1696- E-books
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Erotic letters / Aristaenetus ; introduced, translated, and annotated by Peter Bing and Regina Höschele.
AristaenetusDate: 2013- Books
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Medicaster medicatus, or, A remedy for the itch of scribling. The first part : written by a country practitioner in a letter to one of the town, and by him prefaced and published for cure of John Brown, one of His late Majesties ordinary chyrurgeons, containing an account of that vain plagiary and remarks on his several writings : wherein his many thefts, contradictions, absurdities gross errors, ignorance, and mistakes are displayed and divers vulgar errors in cyrurgery and anatomy refuted / by James Young.
Yonge, James, 1647-1721Date: 1685- Books
Regimen sanitatis.
Date: M. CCCC. XCI. [29 Dec. 1491]- Books
Communicating observations in early modern letters (1500-1675) : epistolography and epistemology in the age of the scientific revolution / edited by Dirk van Miert.
Date: 2013- Books
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The proceedings of the High Court of Iustice : with Charls Stuart, late King of England, in Westminster Hall, begun January 20. ended Ianuary 27, 1648: together with his speech on the scaffold at his execution at Whitehall gate, Jan. 30. 1648. Whereunto is added his prayers in the time of his sufferings: and also, his speeches to his chi[l]dren; with a letter from the Prince. Together with his reasons against the jurisdiction of the High court of Iustice, which he intended to delive[r] in writing on Munday, Jan. 22. 1648.
Date: 1655- Books
Epitome opusculi de curandis pusculis ulceribus, & doloribus morbi Gallici, mali frantzoss appellati / autore Laurentio Phrisio, artium & medicinae doctore.
Fries, Lorenz, approximately 1490-1531Date: [1532]- E-books
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Ancient epistolary theorists / [compiled and translated by] Abraham J. Malherbe.
Date: c1988- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Lagrange-de Lazen
Date: 1800-1965Reference: MS.8890- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7
Date: Aug 1903 - Jul 1904Reference: WF/E/01/01/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 6
Date: Aug 1901 - Jul 1903Reference: WF/E/01/01/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
PATIENTS' PAPERS
Date: c 1800-1965Reference: RET/6/19Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
On hysteria : the invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820 / Sabine Arnaud.
Arnaud, SabineDate: 2015- Archives and manuscripts
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930.Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.8744- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Radford, Drs Maitland and Muriel
Radford, Maitland (b.1885 - d.1944)Date: 1894-1986Reference: PP/RAD- Archives and manuscripts
Locock, Sir Charles: letters to Dr William Kerr
Sir Charles LocockDate: 1821-1875Reference: MS.8773- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 1 ['HSW Private No.1']
Date: Aug 1882-Mar 1888Reference: WF/E/01/01/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
New Moon
Date: 1844-1937Reference: DGH1/7/1/1Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital