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Dictionaire oeconomique: or, the family dictionary. Containing, the most experienced methods of improving estates and of preserving health, with many approved Remedies for most Distempers of the Body of Man, Cattle and other Creatures, and the best Means for attaining long Life. The most advantageous Ways of Breeding, Feeding and Ordering of Domestick Animals, as Horses, Kine, Sheep, Swine, Poultry, Bees, Silkworms, &c. The different Kinds of Nets, Snares and Engines, for taking most Sorts of Fish, Birds, and other Game. Great Variety of Rules, Directions, and new Discoveries, relating to Gardening, Husbandry, Soils and Manures of all Sorts: The Planting and Culture of Vines, Fruit-Trees, Forest-Trees, Underwoods, Shrubs, Flowers, and their several Uses: The Knowledge of Foreign Drugs, Dies, Domestick and Exotick Plants and Herbs, with their specifick Qualities and medicinal Virtues. The best and cheapest Ways of providing and improving all manner of Meats and Drinks; of preparing several Sorts of Wines, Waters and Liquors for every Season, both by Distillation and otherwise: Of preserving all kind of Fruits as well dry as liquid, and making divers Sweetmeats and Works of Sugar, and other profitable Curiosities, both in the Confectionary and Culinary Arts of Housewifery. Means of making the most Advantages of the Manufactures of Soap, Starch, Spinning, Cotton, Thread, &c. The Methods to take or destroy Vermin, and other Animals injurious to Gardening, Husbandry, and rural Oeconomy; with a Description of Garden and other Country Tools and Utensils. An Account of the several Weights, Measures, &c. of Metals and Minerals, with their Preparations and Uses. All sorts of rural sports and exercises, conducing to the Benefit and innocent Enjoyments of Life; as also Painting in Miniature, and divers other Arts and Ternis of Art explain'd, for the Entertainment and Amusement of Gentlemen, Ladies, &c. The whole illustrated throughout with very great Variety of Figures, for the readier understanding and practising of those things to which they belong. Done into English from the second edition, lately printed at Paris, in two Volumes, Folio, written by M Chomell. With considerable alterations and improvements. Revised and recommended by Mr. R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S. In two volumes. Vol. I. From A - to - H.
Chomel, Noel, 1632-1712.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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Mineralogia Cornubiensis; a treatise on minerals, mines, and mining: containing the theory and natural history of strata, fissures, and lodes, With The Methods Of Discovering And Working Of Tin, Copper, And Lead Mines, And Of Cleansing And Metalizing Their Products, Shewing Each Particular Process For Dressing, Assaying, And Smelting Of Ores. To Which IS Added, An Explanation of the Terms and Idioms of Miners. By W. Pryce, of Redruth in Cornwall.
Pryce, William, 1725?-1790.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Botanicum medicinale; an herbal of medicinal plants on the College of Physicians list. Describing their Places of Growth, Roots, Bark, Leaves, Buds, Time of Flowering, Blossoms, Flowers, Stiles, Chives, Embrio's, Fruits, Farina, Colours, Seeds, Kernels, Seed-Vessels, Parts used in Medicine, Preparations in the Shops, Medicinal Virtues, Names in Nine Languages. Most beautifully engraved on 120 large folio copper-plates, from the exquisite drawings of the late ingenious T. Sheldrake. English Plants are drawn from Nature to the greatest Accuracy, Flowers, or Parts, too small to be distinguished, are magnified. Nothing in any Language exceeds this Thirty Years laborious Work, of which may truly be said that Nature only equals it, every Thing of the Kind, hitherto attempted, being trivial, compared to this inimitable Performance. Designed to promote Botanical Knowledge, prevent Mistakes in the Use of Simples in compounding and preparing Medicines, to illustrate, and render such Herbals as want the just Representations in their proper Figures and Colours more useful. Necessary to such as practise Physic, Pharmacy, Chemistry, &c. entertaining to the Curious, the Divine and Philosopher, in contemplating these wonderful Productions, - Useful to Painters, Heralds, Carvers, Designers, Gardeners, &c. The Colours of every Part are minutely described; for Utility it must be esteemed preferable to any Hortus Siccus extant. The Means to preserve Fruits, and dry Flowers, in their Native Form and Colour, are not yet discovered; Plants cannot be preserved to Persection. The Flowers, when coloured, are represented in their original Bloom, and Fruits in the inviting Charms of Maturity. To which now is added, his tables for finding the heat and cold in all climates, That Exotic Plants may be raised in Summer, and preserved in Winter.
Sheldrake, Timothy, -1770.Date: [1759?]- Books
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An essay, to lay open the gospel in its original purity, by a twelvefold paraphrase on the first gospel promise, Made by God, in Paradise, unto the two first Representatives of the Human - Race, immediately after the Fall. (recorded in Genesis, iii. 14, 15.) wherein Twelve different Attributes of the Supreme Being; The Divine Conduct towards Mankind, as Moral Agents; the original Nature and Effects of Moral Evil; the spiritual Office of Christ, the Mediator, in his human and divine Nature; the Means and Effects of regenerating, justifying, and sanctifying Grace; with the progressive Glory of persevering Believers: - are illustrated, and made intelligible to the meanest Capacity, from Reason and Scripture, as far as the Nature of a Paraphrase would admit. By Christopher Fredk Triebner, Late Missionary of the Honourable Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge at Ebenezer, in Georgia; but now Minister of a Lutheran Congregation, in Brown's-Lane, Spital-Fields, London.
Triebner, Christopher Frederic.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The gentleman's and connoisseur's dictionary of painters. Containing a complete collection, and account, of the most distinguished artists, who have flourished in the art of painting, at Rome, Venice, Naples, Florence, and other cities of Italy; in Holland, Flanders, England, Germany, or France; from the year 1250, when the art of painting was revived by Cimabue, to the year 1767; including above five hundred years, and the number of artists amounting to near one thousand four hundred. Extracted from the most authentic writers who have treated on the subject of painting, in Latin, Italian, Spanish, English, French, and Low Dutch. To which are added, two catalogues; the one, a catalogue of the disciples of the most famous masters; for the use of those, who desire to obtain a critical knowledge of the different hands, and manners, of the different schools. - The other, a catalogue of those painters, who imitated the works of the eminent masters so exactly, as to have their copies frequently mistaken for originals. The whole being digested in a more easy and instructive method, than hath hitherto appeared; and calculated for general entertainment and instruction, as well as for the particular use of the admirers and professors of the art of painting. By the Rev. M. Pilkington, A.M. vicar of Donabate and Portraine, in the diocese of Dublin.
Pilkington, Matthew, 1701-1784.Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
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A course of lectures on the theory and practice of midwifery: In which every thing essential to the true knowledge of that art will be fully explained and clearly demonstrated. The osteology of the female pelvis. Of the organs of generation; the theory of conception; and of the nutrition of the fœtus in utero. The several parts will be shewn in their natural situation, with physiological observations on their structure and use. The pathology or general doctrine of the acute and chronical diseases incident to women and children; including their nature, causes, distinctions, and symptoms; together with practical observations and remarks on their treatment and cure. For the clearer demonstration of operative midwifery (whether simply by the hand or the application of instruments) the several methods of assisting both in laborious and preternatural labours, will not only be described according to the most approved modern practice, but likewise distinctly shewn by an artificial representation of each difficult case, upon machines of a new construction, for that purpose. The whole will be illustrated by such anatomical preparations as are applicable to each lecture; together with various practical observations, extraordinary cases, and necessary cautions; but particularly, by real labours. By John Leake, M.D. member of the Royal College of physicians, London, and physician to the Westminster lying-in hospital, at his house in Craven Street, in the Strand.
Leake, John, 1729-1792.Date: A. D. 1775- Books
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Of persons on a journey cureing themselves of the secret disease, Or a gleet, whilst they bait, or set up at their inn, without the knowledge of any one, In above a Fourth Part of the Time, and with far less Trouble, than they ever possibly Can, by taking Physick at Home. Dr, Cockburn speaking of this Method of Cure of this Distemper and A Gleet, expresly says, This Book is Given Gratis, Up One Pair of Stairs at the Sign of Dr. Chamberlen's famous Anodyne Necklace For Children's Teeth, Fits, Fevers, Convulsions, &c. over against Devreuz-Court without Temple - Bar. And by the Authors Servant R. Bradshaw, Whose Business is Purposely to Furnish Persons at a Distance Off, with any of the Things in this Book they shall Send Letters to him for, -To his House, The Golden Key in Bell-Ally Lombard Street. Which is the Great Continual Thorough-Fare from Lombard street into George Yard, Birchin Lane, and Cornhill, Over against the Royal Exchange.
Date: 1733- Books
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The french tutor; or the theory and practice of the French language. BY Means of which, and without any, or very little Help, those that desire to read, write and speak French correctly, may, in a short Time, perfect themselves in the Knowledge thereof. Inriched With a Variety of curious and useful Tables, to assist the Memory, and expedite the Learner's Progress, viz. I. A Table shewing the French Pronunciation, by an Assemblage of Letters, denoting similar Sounds in English. II. A Table exhibiting at one View the different Articles, and their Use. III. A Table of the Genders of Substantives and Adjectives. IV. A Table of the Formation of the Plurals of Substantives and Adjectives. V. Tables for finding, in a Moment, all the Moods, Tenses, Persons, Participles and Gerunds of all Regular Verbs. VI. A Table to know and find all the Irregular Verbs. And more plain and easy Rules than any French Grammar hitherto Published. To Which IS Added, Familiar Phrases and Dialogues reduced to the English Pronunciation, for the Ease and Practice of the Learner. By V. J. Peyton, Author of the Elements of the English Language.
Peyton, V. J.Date: 1773- Books
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C. Curtis. Surgeon, and Man-Midwife Sunbury Middlesex, begs leave to inform the Public, that his Apprenticeship with the late Doctor Edger, at Saraum, in Wilts, he has taken up his Diploma at Leaks Hospital at Westminster, and have followed the above Practice of Surgery and Midwifery for this Eight Years past, and have cured the following diseases after they have baffled the Art of Surgeons, and Physicans of the greatest characters, such as Wounds, Tumours, and Ulchers, either Scorbutic Kings Evil, scal'd Head, Burns, broken Breastes, sore nipples, the Gravel and Stone, give present relief, the Itch in Six Days, the Veneral disease or Pox, if ever so bad or long standing, the scurvy, St. Antonys fire, Quinsey sore Eyes, yellow and black Jaundices, the Dropsy if given over by others as uncurable, they may depend on a cure by me, the Piles the Morphew, the Shingles, Agues, Thursh, Headach, Plurisy, and most disorders Incident to Women, Convulsion Fits in Men, Women and Children, after they have had all the advice the Kingdom can aford them, they may depend on a cure by applying to me, the Worms in Men, Women, and Children, also Consumption if taken in time. N. B. Such Women as in time of Labour will apply to me for assistance in that awfull hour of distress may be thus ashured, that nothing shall be wanted that is in the power of Man to relief or the Virtue of Medicine to give ease in, that cricital and most auful Moment of distress, where the utmost delicacy and Judgment cannot be to well applied, no care and tenderness to much attended as to the preservation of both Mother and Child. - All disorders that may befall either Mother, or Child, in their Month, shall be cured Grans. for Half a Guinea only at the time of Delivery, but if nothing of the kind should hapen to either. Five shillings only, they that live within Six Miles of Sunbury; Whoever doubt of my knowledge in the Art of Midwifery, apply to me where they shall have a prove of it in the neighbourhood of Halliford, one Mile and a half from Sunbury, which was a Case that Occur to me and was sufficient to me to prove my Judgment, in the said Art, - Bleeding, and Tooth drawing performed with care and Accuracy.
Curtis, C.Date: 1790?]- Books
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A course of lectures on the theory and practice of midwifery: in which, Every Thing essentially necessary to the true Knowledge of that Art will be fully explain'd, and clearly demonstrated; particularly, those Operations which are conformable to the Principles of mechanical Motion. Of the Form, Structure and constituent Parts of the Female Pelvis. Of the Organs of Generation, and the Doctrine of Conception;-The Nutrition and Situation of the Foetus in Utero, and its gradual Increase from its Rudiments to the Time of Birth. The Pathology, Treatment and Cure of the various Diseases incident to Child-Bearing Women and Infants, with the Regimen necessary to be observed, respecting the Non-Naturals, viz. Air, Diet, Motion and Rest, Sleep and Watching, Retention, Excretion and the Passions of the Mind. The Antient and Modern Manner of delivering Women in laborious and preternatural Cases compared; with a View of the Advantages and Defects of the Means proposed for that End. - For the clearer Demonstration of Operative Midwisry (whether simply by the Hand or the Application of Instruments) the several Methods of assisting both in natural and preternatural Labours, will not only be described according to the most approved modern Practice, but likewise distinctly shewn, by an artificial Representation of each difficult Case, upon Machines for that Purpose; constructed upon new Principles, and made to the most exact Imitation of real Women and Children. The Whole will be illustrated by such anatomical Preparations as are applicable to each Lecture; together with various practical Observations, extraordinary Cases, and necessary Cautions; but particularly, by real Labours. By John Leake, M. D. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London, And Physician Man-Midwife to the Westminster New Lying-in Hospital, At his House in Craven-Street, in the Strand.
Leake, John, 1729-1792.Date: 1767- Books
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The handmaid to the arts, ... . Teaching, I. A perfect knowledge of the materia pictoria: or the nature, use, preparation, and composition, of all the various substances employed in Painting; as well vehicles, dryers, &c. as colours: including those peculiar to enamel and painting on glass. II. The means of delineation, or the several Devices employed for the more easily and accurately making Designs From Nature, or Depicted Representations; either by off-tracing, calking, reduction, or other means: with the methods of taking casts, or impressions, from figures, busis, medals, leaves, &c. III. The various manners of gilding, silvering, and Bronzing, with the preparation of the genuine Gold and Silver powders, and imitations of them, as also of the fat oil, gold sizes, and other necessary compositions: -the art of Japanning, as applicable not only to the former purposes, but to coaches, snuffboxes, &c. in the manner lately introduced: - and the method of Staining Different Kinds Of AtSubstances, with all the several colours. The whole being calculated, as well for conveying a more accurate and extensive knowledge of the matters treated of to profest artists; as to initiate those who are desirous to attempt these arts, into the method of preparing and using all the colours, and other substances employed in painting in oil, miniature, crayous, encaustic, enamel, varnish, distemper, and fresco; as also in gilding, &c.
Dossie, Robert, -1777.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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The new book of knowledge; or, Young man's best instructor in the arts and sciences. Part I. The theory and practice of arithmetic, vulgar and decimal; the arithmetic of algebra by transposition introduced, as it gives rules to the accomptant; annuities for time; the principles of Mr. Demeivre, Mr. Simpson, and of the author, in estimating annuities for single lives, considered from the equity in sinking money. Digested into systems. Part II. An extensive course of geometry; mensuration; an introduction to gauging and surveying; plain trigonometry; the astronomical principles of geography; the construction and use of maps; the mensuration of the globes of the solar system, and of their orbits; the estimations of artificers; and the debates of the globes concerning the earth's two motions to effect the seasons, &c. Expressly designed to remove that general complaint of not effectually instructing youth, while at school, in what may be of importance in their future stations, and enlarging their narrow conceptions and scanty views of nature. The various subjects are so digested and expressed as to assist the master, and to ground, forward, and encourage the scholar, and to make him of immediate use when he is put to the test. With eight copper-plates. To which is prefixed, a letter on education.
Randall, Joseph.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A discourse concerning the action of the sun and moon on animal bodies; and the influence which this may have in many diseases / By Richard Mead. In two parts.
Mead, Richard, 1673-1754.Date: [1708]- Books
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The french scholar's assistant: or, practice joined to theory. Containing, I. The Explanation of the Parts of Speech, with Accidents and Government. II. The Declension of Nouns and Pronouns, with two or more Words in each Case, it being an Idiom in both Languages, hitherto perplexing to the Learner. III. Rules and Examples upon all the Articles, and all the Difficulties attending that Part of Speech entirely removed. IV. Examples upon the Pronouns, &c. with an alphabetical List of almost all the French Adjectives, both masculine and seminine, which will enable the Learner to make Just Concord, which but few have hitherto done, for Want of them. V. Rules on the Degrees of Comparison, with many Examples, wherein the supplying Pronouns le and en, and the Negative ne, are all introduced, and the Application of them made easy. VI. The English Adjectives beginning in un exemplified, till now so perplexing to Learners, there being generally no Words in French to express them. Vii. The Adverbs, Conjunctions, and Prepositions introduced in short Sentences. Viii. An Explanation of the different Sorts of Verbs, with their Regimen, &c. IX. Rules how to use and vary the Participle Past, with many Examples to each Rule. X. An English Verb, the various Ways of conjugating which, are suited to those of a French Verb, shewing also the Use of all the Tenses, the Knowledge of which will greatly forward those who have not learned Latin. XI. The Auxiliaries exemplified with Sentences, in astirming, denying, and asking, with and without a Negative. XII. The four regular Conjugations and the irregular Verbs in a short Way. XIII. The Dative and Accusative Pronouns, according to the Order of their Construction, throughout the whole Language, exemplified in familiar Sentences, in affirming, denying, and asking, with and without a Negative, with the Particles en and y. XIV. The four Conjugations illustrated with easy, familiar, and striking Sentences, varied in the Persons with different Verbs of each Conjugation, and suited to every Tense, so as to enable any Capacity in a short Time to know the right Use of the Tenses, learn Expressions, the different Ways a Verb may be applied, and to speak the Language with Propriety. XV. The Particles en and y varied with a Verb. XVI. Idiomatical Verbs, &c. exemplified. XVII. A Collection of common Idioms in both Languages, Cards, Letters, &c. The whole on an entire new plan, never before attempted, and calculated as well for the Ease of the Teacher, as the more speedy Improvement of the Learner. By Peter Magnant, Of Abchurch-Lane, London.
Magnant, Peter.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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The compleat family physician; or, universal medical repository. Containing the Causes, Symptoms, Preventions, And Cures, Of all the various Maladies to which Human Nature is subject, from the Birth to the Grave. Including The Diseases peculiar to Seamen, as well as those of particular Climates; such as the East and West Indies, Coast of Guinea, Greenland, Newfoundland, &c. with the proper Methods of treating Lunaticks, and Persons who are subject to Fits of any Kind. - And the best and most approved Preservatives against Epidemick and Contagious Diseases; such as the Plague, Putrid Fevers, Gaol Distemper, and other Infections. Together with An Account of all the celebrated Spas-Not only of this Country, but such others also, as are of great Repute in other Parts of the World, and the Waters of which are usually imported into these Kingdoms; with some Observations on the Virtues and Efficacy of Sea Water and Bathing. Likewise, Strictures on Quackery in general; and a candid Examination of the respective Merits of James's Powder, Norton's Drops, Ormskirk Powder, Ward's Drops, And Other Popular Medicines. With a full Account of the various Kinds of Poisons, both Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral; and the best Methods of counteracting their respective Effects. - Also, the Means to be made use of for restoring Drowned or Strangled Persons, as published by the Humane Society; and the Plan of Dr. Hawes, Secretary to that benevolent Institution, for preventing Persons being buried Alive. To which is added, The family surgery. Containing Directions for treating Green and Old Wounds; proper Stypticks for immediately stopping the Blood in all Cases; and infallible Applications for the Cure of the Bite of Mad Animals, as well as the Bite or Sting of venomous Animals and Insects. With some approved Receipts for the Cure of Ringworms, Warts, Corns, Bruises, Carbuncles, &c. and Directions for managing the Eyes, Ears, Teeth, Nails, &c. so as to prevent Blindness, Deasness, and Lameness in the Feet. Also, The proper Methods of making and using Salves, Ointments, Pills, Cataplasms, Poultices, Fomentations, Embrocations, &c. &c. Together with The compleat British herbal. And A List of all such Drugs, Chymicals, &c. as are directed to be used in the different Preparations, with their Prices at Apothecaries Hall, London. The Whole Forming A Compleat Body Of AtDomestick Medicine, Calculated As well to assist Gentlemen of the Faculty, as for the Use of private Families; and in which the utmost Care is taken to recommend such Remedies as are most plain and simple, and of Course the least expensive, and readiest to be procured. By Hugh Smythson, M.D. Late Student at the University of Leyden. When, on the Bed of loath'd Disease, With streaming Eyes, Affection sees A Child, a Husband, Wife, or Friend, And fears the much-lov'd Victim's End; How sighs the sympathetick Heart, For Knowledge in the Healing Art! How fears, lest Want of Skill prevent The kind Assistance fondly meant! No more, by anxious Dread possess'd, Shall Terror fill the friendly Breast; Whilst in our Labours are combin'd The healing Arts of all Mankind.
Smythson, Hugh.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
John of Salisbury on Aristotelian science / by David Bloch.
Bloch, David, 1975-Date: 2012- Books
A singular remedy : cinchona across the Atlantic World, 1751-1820 / Stefanie Gänger.
Gänger, StefanieDate: 2021- Books
Psychoanalytic scholia on the Homeric epics / By Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis.
Arvanitakis, Konstantinos I.Date: [2015]- Books
[Box of medical historical papers by E. Ashworth Underwood].
Underwood, E. Ashworth, 1899-1980.Date: 1930-1978- Books
Women in the history of science : a sourcebook / edited by Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Jones, Farrah Lawrence-Mackey and Rebecca Martin.
Date: 2023- Books
The Oxford handbook of music and the brain / edited by Michael H. Thaut and Donald A. Hodges.
Date: 2019- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: HEA-HEY
Date: 1765-1910Reference: MS.8854- Archives and manuscripts
Ron Henriques archive
Ron Henriques (1949-2021)Date: 1950s-2021Reference: PP/RON- Archives and manuscripts
Fraser, George Robert (1932-)
Fraser, George Robert (b.1932)Date: 1861-2013Reference: PP/GRF- Archives and manuscripts
Morrison and Hobson Families
Morrison, Robert, 1782-1834.Date: 1807-1963Reference: MSS.5827-5852 & 7127