343 results filtered with: Medicine, Popular - Early works to 1800
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The family-dictionary; or, Houshold companion : wherein are alphabetically laid down exact rules and choice physical receipts for the preservation of health, prevention of sickness, and curing the several diseases, distempers, and grievances, incident to men, women, and children. Also, directions for making oils, ointments, salves, cordial-waters, powders, pills, bolus's, lozenges, chymical preparations, physical-wines, ales, and other liquors, &c. and descriptions of the virtues of herbs, fruits, flowers, seeds, roots, barks, minerals, and parts of living creatures, used in medicinal potions, &c. Likewise, directions for cookery, in dressing flesh, fish, fowl, seasoning, garnishing, sauces, and serving-up in the best and most acceptable manner. The whole art of pastry, conserving, preserving, candying, confectioning, &c. Also, the way of making all sorts of perfumes, beautifying-waters, pomatums, washes, sweet-balls, sweet-bags, and essences: taking spots and stains out of garments, linen, &c. and preserving them from moths, &c. Washing point, sarsnets, and restoring faded linen; and scowering, or brightning tarnished gold, or silver lace, plate, &c. Together, vvith the art of making all sorts of English vvines, as currants, cherries, gooseberries, and cyder, mead, metheglin, &c. And the art of fining, and recovering foul and faded wines. The mystery of pickling, and keeping all sorts of pickles throughout the year. To which is added, as an appendix, the explanation of physical terms, bills of fare in all seasons of the year. With the art of carving. And many other useful matters. / By J.H.
Salmon, William, 1644-1713Date: [between 1600 and 1699?]- Books
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The family physician; or, a safe and easy method of curing most diseases, incident to human bodies. Extracted from various authors, and confirmed by experience.
Date: [1750?]- Books
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An advertisement In Great Knight-Rider-Street near Doctors-Commons back gate; a blew-ball being over the door : Liveth a physician which hath a pill far beyond any medicament yet ever known, or at least published; which cureth those diseases so many pretend to and so few understand, called, the French Pox and Gonorrhea.
Date: [1680?]- Books
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The family-Dictionary: or, houshold companion. Containing, in an alphabetical method, I. Directions for cookery, in Dressing Flesh, Fowl, Fish, Herbs, Roots, &c. Seasoning, making Sauces, Bills of Fare, Art of Carving, &c. II. Making all sorts of Pastry, and Things made of Meal, Flower, whether bak'd, boil'd, or fried, &c. III. Making of Conserves, Candies, Preserves, Confects, Lozenges, Jellies, Creams, Pickles, &c. IV. The Making all kinds of Potable Liquors, as Ales, Meads, Metheglin, English Wines of Cherries, Currans, Goosberries, Rasberries, &c. Cyder, Cyder-Royal, Usquebaugh. V. The Making of all sorts of Perfumes, Sweet Balls, Ponders, admirable Washes, Beautifying Waters, Essences, Pomatums. VI. The Virtues and Uses of the most usual Herbs and Plants, their Roots, Barks, Leaves, Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, used in Physick. Vii. The preparations of several choice medicines, Physical, and Chirurgical, as Cordial Waters, Spirits, Tinctures, Elixirs, Syrups, Pouders, Electuaries, Pills, Oils, Ointments; Cerecloths, and Emplasters. Fitted for a Family Use, in Curing most Diseases incident to Men, Women, and Children. By William Salmon, Professor of Physick.
Salmon, William, 1644-1713.Date: 1705- Books
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Gentlemen and ladies. I am a German surgeon, &c. who (being a stranger here) am oblig'd to publish bills : therefore I must beg pardon of the publick if I do not express my self so well as others.
Nevill, John, active 1710.Date: [1710?]- Books
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The Queens closet opened : incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving and candying &c., which were presented unto the Queen by the most experienced persons of the times, many whereof were had in esteem when she pleased to descend to private recreations.
Date: 1661- Books
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An essay on diseases incidental to literary and sedentary persons. With proper rules for preventing their fatal consequences. And instructions for their cure. By S. A. Tissot, M. D. Professor of Physick at Berne. Now first translated into English.
Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797.Date: M.DCC.LXIX. [1769]- Books
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A Book of fruits & flovvers : Shewing the nature and use of them, either for meat or medicine. As also: to preserve, conserve, candy, and in wedges, or dry them. To make powders, civet bagges, all sort of sugar-works, turn'd works in sugar, hollow or frutages; and to pickell them. And for meat. To make pyes, biscat, maid dishes, marchpanes, leeches, and snow, craknels, caudels, cakes, broths, fritter-stuffe, puddings, tarts, syrupes, and sallets. For medicines. To make all sorts of poultisses, and serecloaths for any member swell'd or inflamed, ointments, waters for all wounds, and cancers, salves for aches, to take the ague out of any place burning or scalding; for the stopping of suddain bleeding, curing the piles, ulcers, ruptures, coughs, consumptions, and killing of warts, to dissolve the stone, killing the ring-worme, emroids, and dropsie, paine in the ears and teeth, deafnesse.
Date: 1653- Books
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Delightes for ladies : to adorne their persons, tables, closets and distillatories. With beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?Date: 1603- Books
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New experiments upon vipers : with exquisite remedies that may be drawn from them as well for the cure of their bitings, as for that of other maladies : also a tetter [sic] of Francisco Redi, concerning some objections made upon his observations about vipers written to Monsieur Bourdelot and Mr. Alex. Morus : together with the sequel of New experiments upon vipers, in a reply to a letter written by Sign. Fredi / by M. Charas ; now rendred English.
Charas, Moyse, 1619-1698Date: 1677- Books
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Secrets of art and nature: or, modern curiosities.
Date: 1710?]- Books
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At the blew ball in Great Knight-Rider-Street, by Doctors Commons Back Gate : liveth a physitian which hath a pill far beyond any medicament yet ever known, or at least published; which cureth those diseases so many pretend to, and so few do understand, called the French Pox, and gonnorhea.
Date: [1680?]- Books
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Thomas Saffold, an approved and licensed physician, and student in astrology, still lives at the Black-Ball and old Lilly's Head : next door to the feather-shops that are within Black-Fryars Gate-way, which is over against Ludgate-Church, just by Ludgate, in London, who resolves these questions following, viz. Whether any ones life may be happy or unhappy.
Date: [between 1674 and 1691]- Books
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At the blew ball in Great Knight-Rider-Street, by doctors commons back-gate liveth a physician : Who cureth the venereal disease with all its symptomes, as Gonorrhea, or running of the reines, pain in the head.
Date: [1680?]- Books
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Pray vouchsafe it the reading over elixir stomachicum: or, the great cordial elixir for the stomach : of a delicate flavour, and pleasing (tho' bitterish) taste, not purging but cordial.
Stoughton, Richard, 1665-1716Date: [1700?]- Books
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The complete family physician, or the art of preventing diseases, and restoring health, founded on rational principles, and adapted to persons of every capacity. By George Wallis, M. D. Editor of the last Edition of Motherby's Medical Dictionary, Sydenham's Works, with Notes, &c. &c.
Wallis, George, 1740-1802.Date: [1795?]- Books
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At the blew ball in little Kerby street in Hatton Garden in Holborn liveth a gentlewoman.
Date: [1680?]- Books
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A caveat to the unwary: or, Venus unveil'd : With all her venerial train, as also her several disguises and various shapes and forms laid open, after a pretended cure.
Clark, T., active 1700Date: [1700?]- Books
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A closet for ladies and gentlewomen, or, The art of preserving, conserving, and candying : With the manner how to make divers kindes of syrups, and all kinds of banqueting-stuff; also divers soveraigne-medicines and salves.
Date: 1654- Books
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A lecture on the generation, increase, and improvement of the human species! Interspersed with precepts for the preservation and exaltation of personal beauty and loveliness; and For prolonging Human Life, Healthily and Happily, To the very longest possible Period of Human Existence! This curious, most eccentric, most important, and most cordially concentric Lecture, is begun with enumerating the safest and most efficacious Ways and Means of producing A Numerous, a Healthy, a Beautiful, and a Virtuous Offspring; And is closed with a glowing, brilliant, and supremely delightful Description of the Structure, and most irresistibly Genial Influences of the Celebrated Celestial Bed!!! The whole illustrated and embellished with A just and spirited Review of the Candour of News-Paper doers; of the present Professors and Administrations of Politics, Law, Physic, and Divinity; and with a Naked Exhibition of Asses, stripped of their Ermine, namely, of country just-asses, Mares, Alderwomen, and Whippers-In! By James Graham, M.D. President of the Council of Health!-Sole Proprietor, and principal Director of the Temple of Health! in Pall-Mall, near the King's-Palace.
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: [1783]- Books
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Delights for ladies : to adorn their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories. With beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters. Read, practice, and censure.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608Date: 1647- Books
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The modern family physician, or the art of healing made easy; being a plain description of diseases to which Persons of every Age are most liable, with the methods of cure. Extracted from the Writings of Sydenham, Mead, Sloane, Boerhaave, Buchan, Tissot, and other eminent physical writers, and Adapted to the Use of private Families.
Date: 1775- Books
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Niemant mijns gelijck. Ingantsch Christenrijck. Die u soo suyver kan geneesen, als ick aen meenigh duysendt hebbewesen : That most renowned Dutch operator, who lived in the great city and University of Leyden, is come over into this most famous nation at the instances of some persons of quality that knew in what great credit he lived in Holland, for the cure of men, women, and children.
Gerardts, GonsaleDate: [1695]- Books
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The arms of Tilly. The virtues and effect of the remedy,[na]med Medicamentum Gratia Probatum id est the remedy approved by grace.
Tilly, Nicolas de Koning.Date: [1780?]- Books
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A rich storehouse or treasurie for the diseased : Wherein are many approued medicines for diuers and sundry diseases, which haue beene long hidden, and not come to light before this time. First set forth for the benefit and comfort of the poorer sort of people, that are not of abilitie to goe to the physicions. By G.W.
A. T., practitioner in physickeDate: 1630