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Considerations on the medicinal use, and on the production of factitious airs. Part I. By Thomas Beddoes, M.D. Part II. By James Watt, engineer. Edition the second. To which are added communications from Doctors Carmichael, Darwin, Ewart, Ferriar, Garnet, Johnstone, Pearson, Thornton, and Trotter; from Mr. Atwood, Mr. Barr, Surgeon to the Birmingham Dispensary, Mr. Walter William Capper, Mr. Gimbernat, Surgeon to the King of Spain, Mr. Sandford, Surgeon to the Worcester Infirmary, and others.
Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808.Date: 1795- Books
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Proposals for the establishment of a new and true Christian Church. And for cutting off the sources of corruption and of Antichristianism in the Church of England. Containing advices to Dr. Priestley, ... With a preface, demonstrating the generally hurtful ... effects of the electrical fire, and of the artificially produced airs, which are recommended by Dr. Priestley, when applied to the human body / By James Graham, M.D.
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: [1788?]- Books
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An essay on regimen, for the preservation of health, especially of the indolent, studious, delicate and invalid; illustrated by appropriate cases; to which are Added, Observations on what is vulgarly termed Catching Cold, on the Art of Mending Health, on Fashionable Diseases, on Lady and Gentlemen Doctors, and on Quacks and Quackery: with seasonable remarks, Economical, Moral and Religious, on the present state of the British Dominions. The profits to be faithfully applied to the purposes of Charity. By James M. Adair, M. D. Member of the Royal Medical Society, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and Formerly, Physician to the Commander in Chief of the Leeward Islands, and to the Colonial Troops, and one of the Judges of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas in the Leeward Islands.
Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.Date: [1799]- Books
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A new and curious treatise of the nature and effects of simple earth, water, and air, when applied to the human body: how to live for many weeks, months, or years, without eating any thing whatever: With The Extraordinary Histories Of Many Persons, Male and Female, who have so subsisted. To which is added, an appendix, Containing Pathetic Remonstrances And Advices To Young Persons, And To Old Men, Against the Abuse of Certain debilitating and degrading Pleasures. By James Graham, M. D. Formerly sole Institutor, Proprietor, and Director of the Temple of Health in the Adelphi, and in Pall-Mall, London.
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: 1793- Books
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Proposals for the establishment of a new and true Christian Church; and for cutting off the sources of corruption and of antichristianism in the Church of England. Containing Advices to Dr. Priestley; and to his numerous deluded and deluding Followers; Critical Remarks on the Churches of England, Scotland, and Rome, and on the various Sects which dissent from them; Directions for the Public and Private Reading of the Holy Scriptures with the deepest Devotion, and with the highest Benefit. The whole interspersed with Exhortations and Words of Consolation to all those Persons who truly know, who are desirous of knowing, or who are destined to know, that our Lord Jesus Christ is very gracious; and that He is the alone-the only possible Saviour of Mankind. With a preface, demonstrating the generally hurtful, and often fatal Effects of the Electrical Fire, and of the artificially produced Airs, which are recommended by Dr. Priestley, when applied to the Human Body. By James Graham, M.D.
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: [1790?]- Books
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A new, plain, and rational treatise on the true nature and uses of the Bath waters: shewing the cases and constitutions in which these waters are really proper to be used, and the best Methods of using them, and likewise the Cases in which they are hurtful and very dangerous;-and demonstrating the great Errors in which Mankind have hitherto been under, in regard to bathing in, pumping with, and drinking these wonderful and powerful Waters;-And also as to their Regimen of Food, Drink, Airing, Exercising, &c. To which are added, several very remarkable cures performed by Doctor Graham, under the immediate ocular Inspection, and attested by th[e] Hand-Writing of several of the principal Nobility of Europe and some great cures performed at Bath. By James Graham, M.D. Of Edinburgh, but now at Bath.
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789][1790]- Ephemera
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Air balloon : at Mr. Patterson's Great Room, no. 6, King-Street, Covent-Garden on Monday, the 1st of December, and every evening during the week, will be delivered a lecture on air / by J. Dinwiddie.
Date: [1783]- Books
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A treatise on air, containing new experiments and thoughts on combustion : being a full investigation of Mr. Lavoisier's system, and proving, by some striking experiments, its erroneous principles : with strictures upon the chemical opinions of some eminent men / by Richard Bewley, M.D.
Harrington, Robert, 1751-1837.Date: 1791- Books
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A chemico-medical essay to explain the operation of oxigene, or the base of vital air on the human body / by Benjamin De Witt, M.P.M.S. ; citizen of the state of New-York.
Date: 1797- Books
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A safe and easy remedy proposed for the relief of the stone and gravel, the scurvy, gout, &c. and for the destruction of worms in the human body, illustrated by cases: together with an extemporaneous method of impregnating water, and other liquids, with fixed air, by simple mixture only, without the assistance of any apparatus, or complicated machine. By Nathaniel Hulme, M. D. of the Royal College of physicians, London: physician to the charterhouse, &c.
Hulme, Nathaniel, 1732-1807.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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A safe and easy remedy, proposed for the relief of the stone and gravel, the scurvy, gout, &c. and for the destruction of worms in the human body, illustrated by cases: together with an extemporaneous method of impregnating water, and other liquids, with fixed air, by simple mixture only, without the assistance of any apparatus, or complicated machine. B Nathaniel Hulme, M.D. of the Royal College of Physicians, London Physician to the charterhouse, &c.
Hulme, Nathaniel, 1732-1807.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Health preserved, in two treatises. I. On the diseases of artificers, which by their particular Callings they are most liable to. With the Method of avoiding them, and their Cure. By Bern. Ramazini, M. D. Chief Professor of Physick at Padua. II. On those distempers, which arise from particular climates, Situations and Methods of Life. With Directions for the Choice of a healthy Air, Soil and Water. By Frederick Hoffman, M. D. Physician to the present King of Prussia. Translated and enlarged, with an appendix, by R. James, M. D. Author of the Medicinal Dictionary.
Ramazzini, Bernardino, 1633-1714.Date: 1750- Archives and manuscripts
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Loose papers 1926-1944
Date: 1926-1944Reference: SA/EPU/G/5/2Part of: Environmental Protection UK- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Letherby-Lockhart
Letheby, H. (Henry), 1816-1876.Date: Mid 17th Century to Late 19th CenturyReference: MS.8886- Books
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A guide to health through the various stages of life. Wherein are Explained, I. The different Degrees and Changes of Age, the principal and inevitable Causes of Old Age, and finally of our Dissolution; with a Chronological and Historical brief Account of long Lives from before the Flood to this present Time. II. The Nature, Properties, Qualities, and Influence of Air. Of Aliments; the Choice of them; their Power upon Human Bodies, with their good and bad Effects. Of Sleeping and Waking; of Motion and Rest; of Retention and Excretion; and of the Possions of the Mind. III. Of the Definitions, Diagnosticks, Prognosticks, and Curative Indications, both Medicinal and Dietetical, of Acute and Chronical Diseases incident to Human Bodies; with the Nature and Use of Bathing and Frictions. The whole illustrated with useful annotations, methodically and succinctly digested, and confirmed by the Authority of the most celebrated Authors, both Ancient and Modern. By Bernard Lynch, M.D.
Lynch, Bernard, -1745.Date: 1744- Archives and manuscripts
Cowell, Major-General Sir Ernest Marshall
Cowell, Major-General Sir Ernest Marshall (1886-1971)Date: 1916-1919Reference: GC/116- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Kidd-Kramer
Date: 1794 - 1953Reference: MS.8898- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Lagrange-de Lazen
Date: 1800-1965Reference: MS.8890- Archives and manuscripts
Fell, Dame Honor Bridget (1900-1986)
Fell, Dame Honor Bridget, 1900-1986Date: 1919-1988Reference: PP/HBF- Archives and manuscripts
British Societies and Organisations, etc
Date: 1938-1982Reference: PP/ASP/DPart of: Parkes, Sir Alan Sterling (1900-1990)- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Strangeways Research Laboratory
Strangeways, T.S.P., 1866-1926.Date: c.1901-1999Reference: SA/SRL- Archives and manuscripts
Mellanby, Sir Edward
Mellanby, Edward, Sir, b. 1884.Date: 1896-1974Reference: PP/MEL