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The visible woman : imaging technologies, gender, and science / edited by Paula A. Treichler, Lisa Cartwright, and Constance Penley.
Date: [1998], ©1998- Books
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The treasure of health, or A wonderful collection of the most valuable secrets in medicine : for the cure of all diseases, wounds, and other accidents to which the human body is subject, with the method of preparing, and instructions for using, the necessary remedies ; also, the best preservatives against the plague, pestilential fevers, small pox, and other kinds of contagious diseases ; discovered, after much research and experience, by the mos[t] skilful [sic] physicians in Europe, and employed with the greatest success, and unknown till the present time in the United States ; carefully collected by a benevolent society in Europe / faithfully translated from the French and other foreign languages, and published for the benefit of humanity, by Lewis Merlin.
Merlin, Lewis.Date: 1819- Books
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Aristotle's legacy: containing. 1. The fortune teller; or the knowledge of good and bad fortune, by throwing Dice on the wheel of fortune. II. By Palmestry, as in the lines and marks in the hand. III. Physiognomy, as in the eyes, nose, chin, &c. Metroposcopus, as the several lines or marks in the forehead and other parts; likewise several other marks relative to long or short life, love, business, humours and dispositions. IV. Dreams and their interpretations more exact than ever. Observations on Valentine's and St. Agnes's Day, and the first hearing of the Cuckow, as they relate to love or marriage; by which any woman may know whether her sweetheart be true or false, and whether fortunate or unfortunate in wedlock: As also to know a pure virgin and how to make an inchanted ring, so as to make any one fall in love with you: Also the most powerful receipt for making love powder. V. Moles and their signs on the face, or any part of the body. Translated by Dr. Boreham, astrologer.
Date: [1790?]- Books
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A narrative of the wonderful deliverance of Samuel Jennings, Esq; Advertisement. The Writer of the following Letter, was a Person of a good Understanding, of great Sobriety and Uprightness, and sustained a very fair Character to his Death, which was in the Year 1764, in an advanced Age. - He bore in his Body the Marks of the terrible assault herein related; the particulars of which he often repeated, and the following Letter was found among his Papers, and is published by his Son to perpetuate the Remembrance of this signal Providence.
Jennings, Samuel, -1764.Date: 1765- Books
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This lytell practyce of Ioha[n]nes de Vigo in medycyne, is translated out of Laten in to Englysshe, for the health of the body of man : These medycynes were proued by Thornetone.
Vigo, Giovanni da, 1450?-1525Date: [1552?]- Books
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A dissertation on the effects of mercury on human bodies, in the cure of the venereal disease ... / by George Key, surgeon : to which is added, the extraordinary case of John Bodle, ... wounded at Clifton Moor, ... containing some animadversions on the use of the bark.
Key, George.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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The method of phisick : conteining the causes, signes, and cures of inward diseases in mans bodie from the head to the foote. Whereunto is added, the forme and rule of making remedies and medicines, which our physitions commonly vse at this day, with the proportion, quantitie, and names of ech [sic] medicine. By Philip Barrough.
Barrough, Philip, active 1590Date: 1590- Books
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Mr. Lloyd having had the honour of reading to their Majesties and the royal family, likewise for the principal nobility and gentry in the universities of Oxford, Edinburgh, Glasgow, &c. with distinguished marks of approbation, presents into dutiful respects to the nobility and gentry of Cambridge, and its vicinity, and begs leave to inform them, that he purposes, as soon as fifty subscribers are obtained, to give three lectures. viz. to explain the phenomena represented by that extensive and improved apparatus the large transparent orrery, which is fourteen feet diameter, assisted by a beautiful variety of auxiliary scenes. The whole being admirably calculated to render the phenomena of the heavenly bodies perfectly inteligible even to those who have not previously thought of the subject. ...
Date: 1795]- 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- Books
Heilen an Leib und Seele : Medizin und Hygiene im 18. Jahrhundert / herausgegeben im Auftrag der Franckeschen Stiftungen von Holger Zaunstöck und Thomas Grunewald.
Date: [2021]- Books
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The garnsey garland. In Three Parts. Part I. The Inhumane Father's Actions to his Daughter, who by her own Father proved with Child, and to keep it private gave her a Thousand Pounds, and sent her to Garnsey, where she was delivered of a Son. Part II. How she left her Babe, and came to London, and married a young Goldsmith near the Strand; with an Account how in process of Time her Son came to be her Apprentice, and how after her Husband's Decease, she was married to her own Son. Part III. How the Morning after she was marry'd, as she lay by his side by a Mark on his Breast, she found he was the Child of her own Body; at which sight she fell into great Despair, and in short time died distracted. Licensed according to Order.
Date: [1710?]- Books
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Great news from the west of England : being a true account of two young persons lately bewitch'd in the town of Beckenton in Somerset-shire, shewing the sad condition they are in by vomiting or throwing out of their bodies the abundance of pins, nails, pewter, brass, lead, iron, and tin to the admiration of all beholders, and of the old witch being carryed several times to a great river, into which her legs being tied, she was thrice thrown in, but each time she swam like a cork, afterwards by order from a justice of the peace she was search'd by a jury of women and such signs and marks being found about her, positive oath was given in against her so that she is committed to jayl until the next assizes.
Date: 1689- Books
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A physical dictionary. Or, An Interpretation of such crabbed words and terms of art, as are deriv'd from the Greek or Latin, and used in physick, anatomy, chirurgery, and chymistry : With a definition of most diseases incident to the body of man: and a description of the marks and characters used by doctors in their receipts. Published for the more perfect understanding of Mr. Tomlinson's translation of Rhaenodaeus dispensatory and whatever other books of physick and surgery are extant in the English tongue. This dictionary will be as useful and sufficient to all our late English practitioners in physick, or chirurgery (especially such as are not scholars) as any dictionary of ten shillings price. Approved by several doctors, surgeons, and apothecaries; and recommended by them in an epistle to all English practitioners in physick and chirurgerie.
Date: 1657- Books
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The English hermite, or, Wonder of this age : Being a relation of the life of Roger Crab, living neer Uxbridg, taken from his own mouth, shewing his strange reserved and unparallel'd kind of life, who counteth it a sin against his body and soule to eate any sort of flesh, fish, or living creature, or to drinke any wine, ale, or beere. He can live with three farthings a week. His constant food is roots and hearbs, as cabbage, turneps, carrets, dock-leaves, and grasse; also bread and bran, without butter or cheese: his cloathing is sack-cloath. He left the Army, and kept a shop at Chesham, and hath now left off that, and sold a considerable estate to give to the poore, shewing his reasons from the Scripture, Mark. 10. 21. Jer. 35.
Crab, Roger, 1621?-1680Date: 1655- Books
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The duty, and a mark of Zion's children. A discourse at Freehold in New-Jersy, upon the sorrowful occasion of the death of the young and very hopeful Joseph Morgan, of Yale Coll. B.A. Who departed this life the 28th. of November, 1723. To the great grief of such (in thes parts) as love the Gospel of our Saviour; because of the great hope they had had, that he would have been some supply in the harvest of our Lord, which in these parts, is perishing for lack of labourers. On the 30th. his body was laid in the earth, and his father entertained a mourning auditory, with a discourse, from Job. X. 2. I will say unto God, do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. And the next day, from Psalm CXXXVII. We wept when we remembered Zion.
Morgan, Joseph, 1671-approximately 1749.Date: 1725- Books
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A catalogue of some curious anatomical preparations, and subjects of natural history, consisting of specimens in spirits, dried, and otherwise prepared, shewing the natural structure, and various diseases of the human body : being part of the collection of a teacher of anatomy : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Hutchins, at his rooms, in King-Street and Hart-Street, Covent-Garden, on Friday, May the 28th, 1790, and following evening, at five o'clock : to be viewed on Thursday : catalogues may be had of Mr. Hutchins.
Hutchins, Hassil.Date: [1790]- Books
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The gentleman's accomplish'd jockey: with the compleat horseman, and approved farrier. Containing, I. The excellent Constitution and Temper of Horses, Mares and Colts; the Manner of Breeding them, with their proper Feed, and Management for all Exercises. II. The Compleat Jockey's Method for Dieting, Physicking, and Ordering, the Race Horse, so as to be fit for any Match: Certain Rules for buying good Horses, and preventing Impositions and Cheats. III. Various Ways for making of Stars, Blazes, and Marks in the Fore-Head, or any Part of the Horse's Body, with other Curiosities, &c. IV. The Farrier's Master-Piece, in knowing the several Causes and Cures of all Distempers, Sores, Wounds, Bruises, and Hurts, incident to Horses; with an excellent Praxis, whereby any one may easily know how and when to Physick, Bleed, Purge, Rowel, Dock, Shoe, and Shape their Horses, being some peculiar Observations not before made publick. By G.M. Gent.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.Date: 1722- Books
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New improvements in the art of midwifery. Shewing I. The true causes of the most difficult births, the great abuse and prejudice of forcing pains by medicines; and the best method of delivering women in such cases by the hand only, without the use of any instrument whatsoever. II. The midwives touchstone, and shield of defence; or the certain marks of knowing when a woman is qualified for this profession. III. The necessity of inspecting the bodies of such women as die in chillbed [sic] before delivery, to discover whether the loss of the mother and infant be owing to the negligence or ignorance of the midwife. IV. A detection of many errors daily committed in the practice of midwifery, with several remarkable cases; and a faithful admonition to all husbands, who have any regard to the saving of the lives of their wives and children. Translated from the Latin original of Henry à Deventer, M.D.
Deventer, Hendrik van, 1651-1724.Date: M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
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New improvements in the art of midwifery. Shewing, I. The true causes of the most difficult births, the great Abuse and Prejudice of forcing Pains by Medicines; and the best Method of delivering Women, in such Cases, by the Hand only, without the Use of any Instrument whatsoever. II. The Midwives Touchstone, and Shield of Defence; or the certain Marks of knowing when a Woman is Qualified for this Profession. III. The Necessity of Inspecting the Bodies of such Women as Die in Childbed before Delivery, to discover whether the Loss of the Mother and Infant be owing to the Negligence or Ignorance of the Midwife. IV. A detection of many errors daily committed in the practice of midwifery, with several remarkable Cases; and a faithful Admonition to all Husbands, who have any regard to the saving of the Lives of their Wives and Children. Translated from the Latin original of Henry à Deventer, M.D.
Deventer, Hendrik van, 1651-1724.Date: M.DCC.XXIV. [1724]- Books
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A dissertation on the effects of mercury on human bodies, in the cure of the venereal disease. With a comparative view of the methods by salivation, unction, and purgation, and the more effectual manner of cure, by the use of the mercurial ointment, without either salivating of purging, as practised at Montpelier and now at Paris, by the learned Doctors Astruc and Cantwell, whereby the train of direful symptoms attending salivation are happily avoided, as also the inconveniences of purgation. To which is added, the extraordinary case of John Bodle, a dragoon in Lord Mark Ker's regiment, who was wounded at Clifton Moor ... containing some animadversions on the use of the bark, wherein it is proved, not to be that universal remedy in all constitutions labouring under gun shot wounds ... / Together with some remarks and observations of the author with respect to the effects of an instrument lately invented by him.
Key, George (Surgeon)Date: 1747- Books
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The discovery of witchcraft : proving that the compacts and contracts of witches with devils and all infernal spirits or familiars are but erroneous novelties and imaginary conceptions : also discovering, how far their power extendeth in killing, tormenting, consuming, or curing the bodies of men, women, children, or animals by charms, philtres, periapts, pentacles, curses, and conjurations : wherein likewise the unchristian practices and inhumane dealings of searchers and witch-tryers upon aged, melancholly, and superstitious people, in extorting confessions by terrors and tortures, and in devising false marks and symptoms, are notably detected ... : in sixteen books / by Reginald Scot ... ; whereunto is added an excellent Discourse of the nature and substance of devils and spirits, in two books : the first by the aforesaid author, the second now added in this third edition ... conducing to the compleating of the whole work, with nine chapters at the beginning of the fifteenth [sic] book of The discovery.
Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599Date: 1665- Books
A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing The vvhole Body of Physick: Discovering The Natures, Properties, and Vertues of Vegetables, Minerals, & Animals: The manner of Compounding Medicaments, and the way to administer them. Methodically digested in Five Books of Philosophical and Pharmaceutical Institutions; Three Books of Physical Materials Galenical and Chymical. Together with a most Perfect and Absolute Pharmacopoea or Apothecaries Shop. Accommodated with three useful Tables, / Englished and revised, by Richard Tomlinson.
Renou, Jean de, 1568-1620.Date: 1657- Books
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A new compleat and universal system or body of decimal arithmetick, containing, I. The whole doctrine of decimal numbers, not only the Plain and Terminate, but also such as Repeat or Circulate ad Infinitum; and a Plain but Perfect Management of both, laid down and explained in all the Fundamental Rules of Plain Arithmetick, and by Logarithms. II. The Application and Use of Decimal Arithmetick in all the Parts or Branches of Arithmetical Science; viz. Vulgar Arithmetick, Vulgar Fractions, Duodecimal, and Sexagesimal Arithmetick; also in Algebra and Logarithms. In all which its Excellency and absolute Necessity is fully evinced. III. Its Application and Use in all such Parts of the Mathematicks as absolutely require its Assistance; viz. Plain Trigonometry, and the Arts depending thereon; as, Navigation, Fortification, Altimetry, and Longimetry; Also the Mensuration of all Kinds of Superficies and Solid Bodies; and the Arts resulting therefrom; as, Gauging, Surveying, &c. IV. A New and Compleat Sett of Decimal Tables never before published, shewing by Inspection the Value of all Kinds of Decimals (without the tedious Methods of Reductions hitherto used) to four or six Places of Figures; Also all the Common Tables very much inlarged, corrected, and improved; wherein all the Circulating Numbers are marked. With all other Tables of Interest, Annuities, Exchange, &c. necessary to render the Work compleat. V. An exact and accurate canon of logarithms for natural Numbers. And thro' the Whole, several Things new and useful, not here express'd. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: M.DCC.XXXV. [1735]- Books
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A new compleat and universal system or body of decimal arithmetick, containing, I. The whole doctrine of decimal numbers, not only the Plain and Terminate, but also such as Repeat or Circulate ad Infinitum; and a Plain but Perfect Management of both, laid down and explained in all the Fundamental Rules of Plain Arithmetick, and by Logarithms. II. The Application and Use of Decimal Arithmetick in all the Parts or Branches of Arithmetical Science; viz. Vulgar Arithmetick, Vulgar Fractions, Deodecimal, and Sexagisimal Arithmetick; also in Algebra and Logarithms. In all which its Excellency and absolute Necessity is fully evinced. III. Its Application and Use in all such Parts of the Mathematicks as absolutely require its Assistance; viz. Plain Trigonometry, and the Arts depending thereon; as, Navigation, Fortification, Altimetry, and Longimetry; Also the Mensuration of all Kinds of Superficies and Solid Bodies; and the Arts resulting therefrom; as, Guaging, Surveying, &c. IV. A New and compleat Sett of Decimal Tables never before published, shewing by inspection the Value of all Kinds of Decimals (without the tedious Methods of Reductions hitherto used) to four or six Places of Figures; Also all the Common Tables very much inlarged, corrected, and improved; wherein all the Circulating Numbers are marked. With all other Tables of Interest, Annuities, Exchange, &c. necessary to render the Work compleat. V. An exact and accurate canon of logarithms, for natural Numbers. And thro' the Whole, several Things new and useful, not here express'd. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: M.DCC.LXIII. [1763]- Books
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The Protestant reconciler: or A short view of the subject matter of the mysterious book of the Revelation, in its three principal parts. I. The preface. chap. 1.I to 8. II. The body, or visionary part. Chap. 1.9. to 22.10. which is 1. Mix'd partly historical and partly prophetical: as those in Chap. 1, 2, and 3. 2. Purely prophetical. Which are, 1. Principal, in the three ranks, or bodies, of prophecies and periods of church affairs. 1. The seven seals. Chap. 6. and 10.1. to 12. 2. The seven trumpets, chap. 8, 9, and 13. 3. The seven vials, chap. 15. and 16. 2. Additional, in chap 4,5. 7.10,11,12. 14.13,14,15,17, 18,19,20,21. III. The conclusion. chap. 22.10. to 21. With brief notes collected out of the best annotations: and wherein may be observed (by comparing prophecy with providence) what God hath fulfillied, is now a-fulfilling, and what is yet to be fulfilled, to the end of the world. With above fifty reasons for obeying that call of God in chap. 18.4. for a separation from Rome; with the characters, marks, and notes of the true and false church. And that all sound Protestants are of one heart, and one way, and do agree in all the substantials of religion, (which are here reduced to twelve heads) both as to matters of faith and practice. Humbly proposed by S.O. To the serious consideration of all Protestants in the city, country, army and navy. For,[.]
S. O.Date: MDCCVII. [1707]