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A salve for a sicke man: or, a treatise containing the nature, differences, and kindes of death : as also the right manner of dying well. And it may serve for spirituall instruction to 1. Mariners when they goe to sea. 2. Souldiers when they goe to battell. 3. Women when they travell with child.
Perkins, William, 1558-1602Date: [1638?]- Books
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An essay on the most effectual means of preserving the health of seamen, in the Royal Navy. Containing directions proper for all those who undertake long voyages at sea ... or reside in unhealthy situations. With cautions necessary for the preservation of such persons as attend the sick in fevers / [James Lind].
Lind, James, 1716-1794.Date: 1762- Books
An essay on the most effectual means of preserving the health of seamen, in the Royal Navy : containing directions proper for all those who undertake long voyages at sea, or reside in unhealthy situations ; with cautions necessary for the preservation of such persons as attend the sick in fevers / by James Lind.
Lind, James, 1716-1794.Date: 1762- Books
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A salve for a sicke man: or, A treatise containing the nature, differences, and kinds of death : as also the right manner of dying well. And it may serve for spirituall instruction to I. Mariners when they goe to sea. 2. Souldiers when they goe to battell. 3. Women when they travell with child.
Perkins, William, 1558-1602Date: 1632- Books
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A salve for a sicke man: or, A treatise containing the nature, differences, and kindes of death : as also the right manner of dying well. And it may serue for spirituall instruction to 1. Mariners when they goe to sea. 2. Souldiers when they goe to battell. 3. Women when they trauell of childe.
Perkins, William, 1558-1602Date: 1597- Books
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Physick for families. Or, The new, safe and powerful way of physick, upon constant proof established : enabling every one, at sea or land, by the medicines herein mentioned, to cure themselves, their friends and relations, in all distempers and diseases. Without any the trouble, hazzard, pain or danger of purgers, vomiters, bleedings, issues, glisters, blisters, opium, antimony and quicksilver, so full of perplexity in sickness. By William Walwyn physitian.
Walwyn, William, 1600-1681Date: 1696- Books
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Physick for families: or, The new, safe, and powerfull way of physick, upon constant proof established : enabling every one, at sea or land, by the medicines herein mentioned, to cure themselves, their friends, and relations, in all distempers and diseases. : Without any the trouble, hazzard, pain, or danger of purgers, vomitters, bleedings, issues, glisters, blisters, opium, antimony, and quicksilver, so full of perplexity in sickness. / By W.W.
Walwyn, William, 1600-1681Date: 1674- Books
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Physick for, families: or the new, safe and powerfull way of physick, upon constant proof established: enabling everyone, at sea or land, by the medicines herein mentioned, to cure themselves, their friends and relations in all distempers and diseases, Without any the trouble, hazzard, pain, or danger, of purgers, vomitters, bleedings, issues, glisters, blisters, opium, antimony and quicksilver. So full of perplexity in sickness / By W[illiam] W[alwyn] Healths Student.
Walwyn, William, 1600-1681Date: 1674- Books
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Physick for families, or, The new, safe, and powerful way of physick, upon constant proof established : enabling every one, at sea or land, by the medicines herein mentioned, to cure themselves, their friends, and relations, in all distempers and diseases, without the trouble, hazzard, pain, or danger or purgers, vomiters, bleedings, issues, glisters, blisters, opium, antimony, and quicksilver, so full of perplexity in sickness / by William Walwyn.
Walwyn, William, 1600-1681Date: 1681- Pictures
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Alexander the Great demonstrating his trust in his physician Philip of Acarnania by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him despite allegations that it was a poison. Oil painting by Benjamin West, ca. 1771.
West, Benjamin, 1738-1820.Date: [1771?]Reference: 45040i- Books
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An essay on the most effectual means of preserving the health of seamen, in the Royal Navy. Containing Directions proper for all those who undertake long Voyages at Sea, or reside in unhealthy Situations. With Cautions necessary for the Preservation of such Persons as attend the Sick in Fevers. By James Lind, M. D. Physician to the King's Hospital at Haslar, near Portsmouth; And Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh.
Lind, James, 1716-1794.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Books
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The American gentleman's medical pocket-book, and health-adviser : containing a statement of the modes of curing every disease to which he is liable; and directions in case of accidents on the road or at sea. With a full account of epidemic cholera, of dyspepsia, and of sick-headache; their causes, cure, and prevention: and a popular description of the human teeth; their formation, diseases and treatment / by the author of The lady's medical pocket-book.
Date: [1833]- Ephemera
Drug advertising ephemera. Box 20.
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The family physician: being a collection of useful family remedies. Together with plain and full directions for administering them, and properly nursing the sick, where the advice of a physician is difficult to be procured. To which is added, A Short Account of those Cases in which Bleeding and Blisters are really serviceable. By Hugh Smith, Apothecary, At the Chymical Warehouse, the upper End of Cheapside, leading into Newgate-Street, London: Where The Medicines herein recommended, are faithfully prepared in Boxes, convenient for Families to take into the Country, and for those who use the Sea to take on Shipboard.
Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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The family physician: being a collection of useful family remedies. Together with plain and full directions for administering them, and properly nursing the sick, where the advice of a physician is difficult to be procured. Also a Short Account of those Cases in which Bleeding and Blisters are really serviceable. By Hugh Smith, Apothecary, At the Chymical Warehouse, the upper End of Cheapside, leading into Newgate-Street, London. Where The Medicines herein recommended, are faithfully prepared in Chests, convenient for Families to take into the Country, and for those who use the Sea to take on Shipboard.
Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789.Date: [1770?]- Books
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The sick-mans rare jewel : wherein is discovered a speedy way how every man may recover lost health, and prolong life, how he may know what disease he hath, and how he himself may apply proper remedies to every disease, with the description, definition, signs and syptoms [sic] of those diseases. (Viz.) The scurvy, leues venerea, gonorrhea, dropsies, catarrhs, chollick, gouts, madness, frensies of all sorts, fever, jaundise, consumptions, ptisick, swoundings, histerick passions, pleurisies, cachexia's, worms, vapours, hypochondriack melancholly, stone, strangury, with the whole troop of diseases most afflicting the bodies of men, women and children; with a supply of suitable medicines; ... a piece profitable for every person and family, and all that travel by sea or land. By B.A.
A. BDate: M DC LXXIV. [1674]- Books
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A compleat history of the glorious life and actions of that most renowned monarch, William the Third, Late King of England, &c. Containing His Princely Birth and Education; His Promotion to be High Admiral, and Chief General by Sea and Land, for the United Provinces: His Magnanimity and Courage, and many Glorious Conquests He gain'd over the French in Flanders and Holland: His Arrival in England in 1688; with His Magnificent Reception and Entertainment at London: His Proclamation and Coronation: His Reduction of Ireland; and His late Noble Actions in Flanders, till the Conclusion of the Wars in 1697. With all the Remarkable Passages throughout the whole Course of His Life; with the particulars of His Sickness and much Lamented Death. Written by the Reverend Dr. Burnet.
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.Date: 1702- Books
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A compleat history of the glorious life and actions of that most renowned monarch, William the Third, late King of England, &c. Containing his princely birth and education; his promotion to to [sic] be high admiral, and chief general by sea and land, for the united provinces: his magnanimity & courage, and many glorious conquests he gain'd over the French in Flanders and Holland: his arrival in England in 1688: with his magnificent reception and entertainment at London: his proclamation and coronation: his reduction of Ireland: and his late noble actions in flanders, till the conclusion of the wars in 1697. With all the remarkable passages throughout the whole course of his life; with the particulars of his sickness and much lamented death. Written by the Reverend Dr. Burnet.
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.Date: 1702]- Books
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The True and interesting history of William Owen and Polly Morgan, both of Monmouth Town: Containing, I. An account of William and Polly's relations. II. William and Polly's regard for each other. III. Their love's discovered by William's father, who forbids him seeing Polly. IV. Their meeting by stealth, which being also discovered William is sent to sea. VI. Polly proving with child sets off for London. VII. Polly gets acquainted with an old Lady in the Stage-Coach, who invites her to her house, where she lies in. VIII. Polly finds the old lady to be a procuress. IX. Polly is addressed by a Lord; is kept by several people; afterwards by an Irish fortune-hunter, who robs her. X. Polly becomes poor, falls sick, and goes to an hospital. XI. Polly meets with her brother, returns into the country and dies. XII. William returns, and finds his father and Polly are dead; he d[i]es a bachelor; with a caution to parents and maidens.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]- Books
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The western garland; or, Sweet William of Plymouth. Shewing, How a young Sailor of Plymouth courted the beautiful Daughter of a Fisherman, whose Love he gained, and also the Consent of her Parents to be married to her; but she falling sick and he being obliged to go Sea, the Wedding was prevented. - How in the Absence of her Lover she recovered, and was courted by a wealthy Farmer and a 'squire, both of whom she slighted, for which reason her parents sent her to Holland to wait on a Lady, resolving that she should wed the 'squire. - How in the mean time her Lover returned to Plymouth, and, enquiring after her, was told by her Parents that she was dead, upon which he took another Voyage, in which, by a Storm, the Ship was cast upon the Coast of Holland, and while they were refitting it he went to the Hague where he met with his beloved Susan. - How he brought her back to Plymouth, and married her, with what passed at the Wedding.
Date: [1765?]- Books
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The cruel step-mother. Or, the unhappy son. Giving 1. An account of 'squire Brown of York, who had one only Son; and how his Lady sell sick, and on her Death Bed begged of him not to marry for the sake of her Child. 2. How he soon married a rich Widow, who was very cruel to his Son; and how his Uncle dy'd, and left him an Estate of Two Hundred Pounds a Year. 3. How his Step-Mother sent him away for the sake of his Money, by taking a Ring from his Father and putting it in the Boy's Pocket, for which his Father sent him to Sea, and the Ship was taken by the Spaniards, and he made a Slave of. 4. How the Ghost of his Mother came to this cruel Wretch, and told his Father of the Ring. 5. How afterwards his Father sell into Despair and hanged himself, and his Son came Home again, went to the Law with his Mother, got Five Hundred Pounds from her, which broke her heart, and she dy'd with Grief. Licensed and entered according to Order.
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The cruel step-mother: or, the unhappy son. Giving I. An account of 'squire Brown of York, who had one only Son; and how his Lady sell sick, and on her Death Bed begged of him not to marry for the Sake of her Child. 2. How he soon married a rich Widow, who was very cruel to his Son; and how his Uncle dy'd, and left him an Estate of Two Hundred Pounds a Year. 3. How his Step-Mother sent him away for the Sake of his Money, by taking a Ring from his Father and putting it in the Boy's Pocket, for which his Father sent him to Sea, and the Ship was taken by the Spaniards, and he made a Slave of. 4. How the Ghost of his Mother came to this cruel Wretch, and told his Father of the Ring. 5. How afterwards his Father sell into Despair and hanged himself, and his Son came Home again, went to Law with his Mother, got Five Hundred Pounds from her, which broke her Heart, and she dy'd with Grief. Licensed and entered according to Order.
Date: 1760?]- Ephemera
Electrotherapy & vibrators ephemera. Box 1.
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The London art of cookery, and housekeeper's complete assistant. On a new plan. Made plain and easy to the understanding of every housekeeper, cook, and servant, in the kingdom. Containing, proper directions for the choice of all kinds of provisions. Instructions for russing [sic] poultry. Roasting and boiling all sorts of butcher's meat, poultry, game, and fish. Baking, broiling, and frying. Sauces for every occasion. Soups, broths, stews, and hashes. Ragoos and fricassees. Made dishes, both plain and elegant. All sorts of pies and puddings. Pancakes and fritters. Proper instructions for dressing fruits and vegetables. Pickling, potting, and preserving. The preparation of hams, tongues, and bacon. To keep garden stuffs and fruits in perfection. The whole art of confectionary. The preparation of sugars. Tarts, puffs, and pasties. Cakes, custards, jams, and jellies. Drying, candying, and preserving fruits, &c. Elegant ornaments for entertainments. Instructions for carving. Necessary articles for sea-faring persons. Made wines, cordial waters, and malt liquors. To which is added, an appendix, containing considerations on culinary poisons; directions for making broths, &c. for the sick; a list of things in season in the different months of the year; marketing tables, &c. &c. Embellished with a head of the author, and a bill of fare for every month in the year, elegantly engraven on thirteen copper-plates. By John Farley, principal cook at the London Tavern.
Farley, John, active 18th century.Date: 1800- Books
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The london art of cookery, and housekeeper's complete assistant. On a new plan. Made Plain and Easy to the Understanding of every Housekeeper, Cook, and Servant, in the Kingdom. Containing, proper directions for the choice of all kinds of provisions. Instructions for trussing Poultry. Roasting and boiling all Sorts of Butcher's Meat, Poultry, Game, and Fish. Baking, Broiling, and Frying. Sauces for every Occasion. Soups, Broths, Stews, and Hashes. Ragoos and Fricassees. Made Dishes, both plain and elegant. All Sorts of Pies and Puddings-Pancakes and Fritters. Proper Instructions for dressing Fruits and Vegetables. Pickling, Potting, and Preserving. The Preparation of Hams, Tongues, and Bacon. To keep Garden Stuffs and Fruits in Perfection. The whole Art of Confectionary. The Preparation of Sugars. Tarts, Puffs, and Pastics. Cakes, Custards, Jams, and Jellics. Drying, Candying, and Preserving Fruits, &c. Elegant Ornaments for Entertainments, Instructions for Carving. Necessary Articles for Sea-Faring Persons. Made wines, cordial waters, and malt liquors. To which is added, an appendix, Containing Considerations on Culinary Poisons; Directions for making Broths, &c. for the Sick; a List of Things in Season in the different Months of the Year; Marketing Tables, &c. &c. Embellisifed With A Head of the Author, and a Bill of Fare for every Month in the Year, elegantly engraven on Thirteen Copper-Plates. By John Farley, Principal Cook At The London Tavern.
Farley, John, active 18th century.Date: [1796]