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The ladies delight: or, A rich closet of choice experiments & curiosities : containing the art of preserving & candying both fruits and flowers : together with The great cook; or, The art of dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish. / By Hannah Wooley. ; To which is added: The ladies physical closet: or, Excellent receipts, and rare waters for beautifying the face and body.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1672
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Aurora chymica, or, A rational way of preparing animals, vegetables, and minerals for a physical use / authore Edwardo Bolnest.
Bolnest, EdwardDate: 1672
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Markham's masterpiece : containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leech, touching the curing of all diseases in horses ... being divided into two books, the first containing all cures physical, the second all belonging to chirurgery ... / written by Gervas Markham, Gent.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: 1668
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Markhams master-piece : containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leech, touching the curing of all diseases in horses ... being divided into two books, the first containing all cures physical, the second all belonging to chirurgery ... / written by Gervas Markham, Gent.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: 1662
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A rich closet of physical secrets : collected together by the elaborate paines of four severall students in physick, and digested together ... : with certain approved medicines taken out of manuscript, found at the dissolution of one of our English abbies, and supplied with some of his own experiments, by a late English doctor.
A. MDate: [1653]
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The Accomplish'd lady's delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery : containing I. the art of preserving and candying fruits & flowers ..., II. the physical cabinet, or, excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery : together with some rare beautifying waters, to adorn and add loveliness to the face and body : and also some new and excellent secrets and experiments in the art of angling, 3. the compleat cooks guide, or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish, both in the English and French mode.
Date: 1675
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A help to discourse: or, More merriment mixt with serious matters : Consisting of witty, philosophical, grammatical, physical, astronomical, questions and answers. As also epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, jests, posies, love-toyes, &c. re-added, and plentifully dispersed. Together with The country-mans counsellour, and his yearly oracle, and prognostication, with additions, or a help to preserve his health, never before printed. As also the art of cookery, and sundry experiments, and their extractions of oyl, waters, &c.
Date: 1663
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A directory for midwives: or, A guide for women : in their conception. Bearing; and suckling their children. The first part contains, 1. The anatomy of the vessels of generation. 2. The formation of the child in the womb. 3. What hinders conception, and its remedies. 4. What furthers conception. 5. A guide for women in conception. 6. Of miscarriage in women. 7. A guide for women in their labour. 8. A guide for women in their lying-in. 9. Of nursing children. To cure all diseases in women, read the second part of this book. By Nicholas Culpeper, Gent. student in physic and astrology.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1693
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A directory for midwives: or, A guide for women : in their conception, bearing, and suckling their children. The first part contains, 1. The anatomy of the vessels of generation. 2. The formation of the child in the womb. 3. What hinders conception, and its remedies. 4. What furthers conception. 5. A guide for women in conception. 6. Of miscarriage in women. 7. A guide for women in their labour. 8. A guide for women in their lying-in. 9. Of nursing children. To cure all diseases in women, read the second part of this book. By Nicholas Culpeper, Gent. student in physic and astrology.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1700
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Levamen infirmi: or, cordial counsel to the sick and diseased : Containing I. Advice concerning physick, and what a physician ought to be; with an account of the author's remedies, and how to take them. II. Concerning melancholy, frensie, and madness; in which, amongst other things, is shew'd, how far they differ from a conscience opprest with the sense of sin, and likewise how they differ among themselves. III. A miscellany of pious discourses, concerning the attributes of God; with ejaculations and prayers, according to scripture rule. Likewise an account of many things which have happen'd since the creation. To which are added several predictions of what may happen to the end of the world. The whole being enrich'd with physical, pious, moral & historical observations, delightful to read, & necessary to know. By D. Irish, practitioner in physick and surgery, now dwelling at Stoke, near Guilford in Surry, where he is ready to serve any person, to the utmost of his skill.
Irish, DavidDate: 1700
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Vade mecum: or, A companion for a chyrurgion : Fitted for sea, or land; peace, or war. Shewing the use of his instruments, and virtues of medicines simple and compound most in use, and how to make them up after the best method. With the manner of making reports to a magistrate, or coroner's inquest. A treatise of bleeding at the nose. With directions for bleeding, purging, vomiting, &c. By Thomas Brugis Doctor in Physic. The sixth edition, amended and augmented. With an institution of physic, and seven new treatises viz. of tumors, wounds, ulcers, fractures, dislocations, lues venerea, anatomy. By Ellis Prat M.D.
Brugis, Thomas, active 1640?Date: 1679
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Country contentments, or, The husbandmans recreations : containing the wholesome experience in which any ought to recreate himselfe after the toyle of more serious business : as namely hunting, hawking, coursing with greyhounds, and the lawes of the lease, shooting in long-bow or cross-bow, bouling, tennis, baloon : the whole art of angling and the use of the fighting cock / by G.M.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: 1660
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Country contentments, or, The husbandmans recreations : contayning the wholesome experiences in which any man ought to recreate himself after the toyle of more serious business : as namely hunting, hawking, coursing with greyhounds, and the lawes of the lease, shooting in longbow or crossbow, bowling, tennis, baloone : the whole art of angling and the use of the fighting cock / by G.M.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: 1654
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Country contentments, or, The husbandmans recreations : containing the wholesome experience in which any ought to recreate himself after the toyle of more serious business : as namely hunting, hawking, coursing with greyhounds, and the laws of the lease, shooting in long-bow or cross-bow, bowling, tennis, baloon : the whole art of angling and the use of the fighting cock / by G.M.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: 1668
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A physical discourse touching the nature and effects of the courageous passions : viz. boldness, constancy, and anger / Englished by a person of quality.
La Chambre, Marin Cureau de, 1594-1669Date: 1658
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Riddles mervels and rarities: or, A new way of health, from an old man's experience, &c : Being his kind legacy, to his fellow creatures: or, the physician, and no physician, prescribing physick, and no physick; shewing plain, easie, and cheap ways, how every man may become his own physician, his own apothecary, and his own chyrurgeon, with little or no trouble, but far less cost. Whereby sickness may certainly be prevented to the well; health, as certainly procur'd to the sick; and man's life comfortably preserv'd, to a good old age.... Divided into 2 parts, by two universal medicines; the one physical, the other natural; the first the worst, the second the best. Also a short discourse concerning the phylosopher's stone, ... With several other choice observations of profitable use, as may be seen in the table here annext.
Mace, Thomas, -1709?Date: Anno Dom. 1698
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Country contentments, or, The husbandmans recreations : containing the wholesome experience, in which any ought to recreate himself, after the toyle of more serious businesse : as namely, hunting, hawking, coursing with grayhounds, and the lavves of lease, shooting in the longbow or crossbow, bouling, tennis, baloone, the whole art of angling, and the use of the fighting cock / by G.M.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: 1656
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Country contentments, or, The husbandmans recreations : containing the wholsome experience, in which any ought to recreate himself, after the toyl of more serious business : as namely, hunting, hawking, coursing with grayhounds, and the laws of lease, shooting in the long-bow or cross-bow, bowling, tennis, baloon, the whole art of angling, and the use of the fighting cock / by G.M.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: 1664
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Peripateticall institutions : In the way of that eminent person and excellent philosopher Sr. Kenelm Digby. The theoricall part. Also a theologicall appendix of the beginning of the world. / By Thomas White Gent.
White, Thomas, 1593-1676Date: M.DC.LVI. [1656]
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A help to discourse: or, more merriment mixt with serious matters : Consisting of witty, philosophical, grammatical, physical, astronomical, questions and answers. As also epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, jests, poesies, love-toyes, &c. are added, and plentiful'y dispersed. Together with The country-mans counsellour, and his yearly oracle, and prognostication, with additions, or a help to preserve his health; never before printed. As also the art of cookery, and sundry experiments, and their extractions of oyl, waters, &c.
Date: 1667
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Honest invitations : At the sign of the globe, over against the Cheshire-Cheese in Arundel-street, by St. Clements Church inthe [sic] Strand, lives D. Woodward, professor of Astrology & Physick; who.
Woodward, Daniel, active 1682-1700Date: [1690]
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Mercurius coelestis : being an almanack for the year of the worlds redemption, 1681. And of its creation according to the best of history, 5630. It being the first after bissextile, or leap-year in which is comprized variety of matter fit for such a subject, - as the aspects of the planets, eclipses, sun rising and setting, monthly observations in verse and prose. With other things. [bracket] Astronomically and astrologically [bracket] considered. Calculated for the meridian of London. / By John Partridge.
Partridge, John, 1644-1715Date: 1681
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Mercurius coelestis : being an almanack for the year of the worlds redemption, 1681. And of its creation according to the best of history, 5630. It being the first after bissextile, or leap-year in which is comprized variety of matter fit for such a subject, - as the aspects of the planets, eclipses, sun rising and setting, monthly observations in verse and prose. With other things. [bracket] Astronomically and astrologically [bracket] considered. Calculated for the meridian of London. / By John Partridge.
Partridge, John, 1644-1715Date: 1681
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The English physitian enlarged : with three hundred, sixty and nine medicines, made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this: being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation; containing a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself, being sick, for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English bodies. Herein is also shewed these seven things, viz. 1. The way of making plaisters, oynments, oyls, pultisses, syrrups, decoctions, juleps or waters, of all sorts of physical herbs, ... 7. The way of mixing medicines according to the cause and mixture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. student in physick and astrology.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1684
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A new prognostication for the year of our Lord God 1665 : Being the first after leap-year. Wherein are contained the moveable feasts, with the change of the moon, her full and quarters: with the true disposition of the weather, in every quarter of the moon, and a true description of the eclipses of this year. Together with dates of husbandry and gardening, for every month. Also with some physical observations. With the names and times of all the fairs in Scotland: with an addition of several new fairs, never before printed. Set forth at Aberdene, by Philomathes.
PhilomathesDate: For the year 1665