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The practical scheme of the secret disease, a gleet and a broken constitution by fast living, former cures, salivations, Mercury, Self-Abuses, and Defilements &c. - Containing A Short and Sure Way at Once With the Cure of the Venereal Distemper and a Gleet, much Easier, infinitely Privater, and a deal Sooner by Dr Cockburn's New easy Way without any Thing taken at the Mouth, than by any of the common Methods of Physick. - Also Of the Gout, and Dentition in children: Dedicated to Dr. Chamberlen. This Book is Given Gratis, (and all the things in it sold) by the Gentlewoman Up One Pair of Stairs At the Sign of the Celebrated Anodyne Necklace Recommended by Dr. Chamberlen for Childrens Teeth, just by the Fountain Tavern near Exeter Change in the Strand, being Removed from Temple-Bar for Reasons hereafter in the Tobacco Page. - And of the Necklace see pag. 14. At Mr. Jer. Pain's, the First Toy-Shop on the Right-Hand just within Popes-Head-Ally, going in from Cornhill. - Being Removed from the Change Gate, over the Way. At Mr. Greg's, Bookseller, next to Northumberland-House at Charing-Cross, Where Epsom, Bath, & other Waters are Sold. And by the Author's Servant R. Bradshaw, as over Leaf.
Date: 1726- Books
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The gentleman farrier. Containing instructions for the choice, and directions in the management of horses, either for draught or pleasure, on a journey, or in the stable; with an account of their distempers, and receipts for the cure of them. To which is added an appendix, concerning dogs, either for the Field or the Lap, wherein their diseases are describ'd, and the means to cure them. The horse-receipts by his late Grace of Devonshire, Earl of Orrery, Lord Carleton, Sir John Packington, General Seymour, Portman Seymour, Esq; James Nicholson, Esq; - Thornton, Esq; of Bloxham, &c. Published by the direction of a person of quality.
Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Books
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Essays on the venereal disease and its concomitant affections. By William Blair, A. M. Surgeon of the Lock Hospital and Finsbury Dispensary, &c. First part of the first essay. On the antivenereal Effects of Nitrous Acid and other analogous Remedies; exhibiting a Summary of the Evidence adduced by various Practitioners, with sixtyone original Cases.
Blair, William, 1766-1822.Date: MDCCXCIX. [1799]- Books
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The guardian of health, long life, and happiness! Or, Dr. Graham's general directions as to regimen, &c. for the preservation of health, for the happy prolongation of life, and for the radical and lasting cure of all nervous, scorbutic, scrophulous, bilious, gouty, rheumatic, and of all other diseases; - affectionately addressed to every reasonable and candid man who wishes to be healthy, respectable, and truly happy.
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: 1783]- Books
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Essays on the venereal disease and its concomitant affections, illustrated by a variety of cases. Essay I. - Part I. On the antivenereal effects of nitrous acid, oxygenated muriate of potash, and several analogous remedies, which have been lately proposed as substitutes for mercury. By William Blair, A. M. Surgeon of the lock hospital and asylum, and of the old finsbury dispensary.
Blair, William, 1766-1822.Date: [1798]- Books
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A safe-Conduct through the territories of the republic of Venus. Containing, a practicable proposal for the prevention and final eradication of a certain disease. Also, occasional anecdotes, (never before published) of the following personages: His-The P-. His Grace the D-of Q-. Late Lord L-. The Man of the People. The Woman of the People. The facetious Mr. C-y. Sir John and Lady L-. Mr. C-, Member for-. Bob the Waiter. The Mad Vicar of B-t. Major H-. Capt. - , while in America. Capt. - and Poll Scott. Late Nan C-. The Rev. Dr. A-. David Hume. Capt. E-d, with his Character, and Sketch of his Life. A great Northern Lady; And several others. By a physician of Bath; author of several political tracts, translations, &c.
Physician of Bath.Date: M.DCC.XCIV. [1794]- 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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A practical essay on the human teeth: explaining the art of effectually preserving the health, utility, and beauty of the teeth, gums, and contiguous parts of the mouth, and setting forth the Use of the various Operations employed by the Dentist, in preventing and remedying the Diseases, Defects, and Deformities incident to the several Parts of the Mouth, with such Instructions as will enable the Patient to judge for himself when they ought to be performed: Wherein the most material Objections against Scaling the Teeth, and the Use of artificial Teeth are considered, and a full Refutation of them attempted. To which is subjoined an appendix exhibiting the author's charges for the several operations he performs, &c. By Paul Eurialius Jullion, Surgeon - Dentist.
Jullion, Paul Eurialius.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]- Books
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A candid enquiry into the merits of Doctor Cadogan's Dissertation on the gout. In which the cause of the disease - the method of cure - the consistency of opinion-the energy of argument-the conclusiveness of reasoning-the aptness of illustration-the perspicuity of style-the ingenuity of the undertaking-the conspicuousness of novelty-and the certainty of errors, which are contained in that popular performance, are fully considered, and fairly exposed to view. With an appendix, in which is contained a certain cure for the gout, &c.
Shebbeare, John, 1709-1788.Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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Londons disease, and cure: being a soveraigne receipt against the plague, for prevention sake. By John Qvarles, philo-medicus.
Quarles, John, 1624-1665Date: 1665- Books
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A treatise on pasturage. In two parts. I. - On the history thereof, and Advantages arising therefrom. II. - On the practice of it, or Method of Managing Sheep-Farms. With observations on the Woolen Manufacture. To which is added, an Essay on the general oeconomy and management of black cattle farms, under a breeding stock, and methods of curing and preventing diseases to which such Cattle are subject, including the management of the dairy. As also a short essay on the inclosures proper and expedient, on farms under a breeding stock, and the best and quickest method of executing them.
Macmillan, Anthony, fl. 1786.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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Introduction to a dissertation on the properties and efficacy of the Lisbon diet-drink, and its extract, in the cure of veneral disease and scurvy; Rheumatic Gout, the Scrophula, Consumption, and other Disorders proceeding from an impure State of the Blood; especially those of the Skin and Glands. to which are added sixty-three select cases, Confirming its Success and restorative Power in Consumptive Habits, and broken Constitutions. - The Extract may be taken unimpaired in its Virtues, in any Climate; and, as a mild Stomachic Alterative, has been found highly beneficial in sweetening the Blood, and repairing the Constitution. Also preparatory to Sea Bathing; and as a gentle Laxative, during the Use of Bath, Tunbridge, or Spa Waters which render the Habit costive. By John Leake, M.D. Of the Royal College of Physicians, London, and Physician to the Westminster Lying-in Hospital, at his House in Parliament-Street.
Leake, John, 1729-1792.Date: [1791]- Books
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A candid enquiry into the merits of Doctor Cadogan's Dissertation on the gout. In which the cause of the disease - the method of cure - the consistency of opinion-the energy of argument-the conclusiveness of reasoning-the aptness of illustration-the perspicuity of style-the ingenuity of the undertaking-the conspicuousness of novelty-and the certainty of errors, which are contained in that popular performance, are fully considered, and fairly exposed to view. With an appendix, in which is contained a certain cure for the gout, &c. The second edition. By John Shebbeare, M.D.
Shebbeare, John, 1709-1788.Date: M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]- Books
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The english physician enlarged with three hundred and sixty-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 complete Method of Physic, 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, 1. The Way of making Plaisters, Ointments, Oils, Poultices, Syrups, Decoctions, Juleps, or Waters of all Sorts of Physical Herbs, that you may have them ready for your Use at all Times of the Year. - 2. What Planet governeth every Herb or Tree (used in Physic) that groweth in England. 3. The Time of gathering all Herbs both Vulgarly and Astrologically. - 4. The Way of drying and keeping the Herbs all the Year. - 5. The Way of keeping their Juice ready for Use at all Times-6. The Way of making and keeping all Kinds of Useful Compounds made of Herbs-7. The Way of mixing Medicines according to the Cause and Mixture of the Disease and Part of the Body afflicted. By Nich. Culpepper. Gent. Student in Physic and Astrology.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.Date: 1785- Books
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A treatise on the dropsy, wherein the various kinds of the disease are considered, with their different causes, &c. &c. - The absurdity of the present general mode of cure exposed, and a different one recommended as pursued by the author. To which is added, an appendix, containing a few remarkable cases which had been given up and abandoned as incurable, by medical Practitioners of the highest Character and Reputation, but were afterwards cured by the Mode proposed; adduced as a Proof of its Superiority over the common Method. By a physician.
Physician.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- Books
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A dissertation on fevers and inflammatory distempers : wherein an expeditious method is proposed of curing those dangerous disorders / by R. James, M.D. ... ; to which is added, an account of the success with which this medicine has been given in the small pox, yellow fever, slow fever, and rheumatism.
James, R. (Robert), 1703?-1776.Date: 1755- Books
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The complete cow-doctor, or, farmer's companion. Treating of the most common disorders of black-cattle - their causes, symptons and cures. By Joshua Rowlin, of Hollins, Parish of Lamplugh, Cumberland. To which is prefixed, the natural history of that animal, from the most eminent Natural Historians-a Disquisition on Rumination and Digestion-on the Circulation of the Animal Fluids; from Dr. Munro, Fourcroy, and others. There is also a particular description given of an elastic tube, invented by Dr. Munro, with the method of using it for the immediate relief of swellings occasioned by eating Wet Clover-by Fogsickness, or Poisons. To the whole is added, an appendix, Containing many remarks and observations, on the Murrain, Gargle, or Pestilential Fever, made by eminent Physicians, at different times, when that Disorder raged in England, &c.
Rowlin, Joshua.Date: 1794- Books
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Stolen on Saturday night, the 17th of April last, out of Caerllegan-Fach farm, in the Parish of Meidrim, in the County of Carmarthen, a sorrel horse, Rising Four Year Old, about Thirteen Hands and a Half high; has a Bald Face, with a Red Star on the left Side of his Forehead, the Mane hanging on the Left Side, with a Switch Tail; has the Warble on the Middle of the Back Bone, inclining rather to the right Side; the Hair rubbed off his Sides, occasioned by working in a Team; Two Hind Feet White, and Part of the Hoof of one of his Fore Feet wanting. - Whoever will apprehend, or give such Notice to Samuel Thomas, of Caerllegan-Fach aforesaid, as may be the Means of apprehending the Offender or Offenders concerned in stealing the said Horse, shall receive two Guineas Reward. May 1, 1790.
Thomas, Samuel, of Caerllegan-Fach.Date: [1790]- Books
Pharmacopoeia Bartleiana, or, Bartlet's gentleman farrier's repository, of elegant and approved remedies for the diseases of horses / in two books, containing, I. the surgical; II. the medical part of practical farriery : also, directions for the proper treatment of post chaise and other horses after violent exercise ... To which are now added, Mr. Clover's elegant and useful machine for securing the broken legs of horses without slinging; also, Mr. Goodall's pneumatic engine, for fumigating horses with broken wind, or bad coughs.
Bartlet, J. (John), 1716?-1772.Date: 1773- Books
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The practical scheme of the secret disease, a gleet and a broken constitution, caused by fast living, former cures, salivations, taking of mercury, self-abuses, &c. Since Whoever has the Venereal Distemper Either has it but slightly in its 1st Degree; Or else they have it more Virulent in its 2d, or 3d Degree. - And again, Since the First Degree is Cured with a little Matter, and the Second, and Third Degrees require something more: Therefore, That Persons may rightly know to Which of these Degrees their own Case belongs, and what will best Cure it: All these Articles (with all the Circumstances of a Gleet) are fully and Practically explained in this Scheme. See Page 15. Of the Tobacco for the Head and Eyes. See Page 14. Of the Celebrated Anodyne Necklaces, Approved by Dr. Chamberlen. This Book is Given Gratis, Up One Pair of Stairs at the Sign of the Celebrated Anodyne Necklace Recommended by Dr. Chamberlen for Childrens Teeth, against Devreux-Court, without Temple-Bar. At Mrs Garway's in Cornhil. At Mr Payne's, Cane-Shop in Castle-Ally Passage in the R. Exchange. At Mr. Greg's Bookseller, next Northumberland-House Charing-Cross. And by (the Author's Servant) R. Bradshaw as in Page 5.
Date: 1727- Books
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A practical scheme of the secret disease, and broken constitutions. Teaching persons, 1st. To understand rightly their own case: whether infected or not: In what Degree of Malignity: And if perfectly well after former Cures. II. To Cure themselves in a Few Days as well as if no such thing had ever been, of Secret Injuries, Heats of Urine, Old Gleets, & other Weaknesses: also a Broken, Spoiled, Decayed and Ruined Constitution and Habit of Body, by Fast-Living, Former ill Cures, Salivations, and Mercury, without Slip-Slops of Physick, Suspicion, Confinement, or Telling their Case to any one. Clearly explaining to any Person the most certain Signs to know this Disease by, with the true method of Curing it: As When? How much? And what sort of Purging is Necessary for the Cure of it? And what Degrees of it may be cured without. Being the most Methodical Account of the Secret Disease ever yet Published: And consequently is worth any ones Reading, who either [illegible] Were: Are now: Or probably may be in any Venereal Circumstances whatsoever: & wish their own & Posterity's welfare. This Book is Given Gratis in English: French: High German: Low Dutch: Spanish: Italian: Portuguese: Swedish: Danish: and Polish Languages, for the use of Forreigners. At Mrs. Garway's at the Royal Exchange Gate next Cornhil. At Mr. Coopers a Toy Shop the corner of Charles Court by Hungerford-Market near Charing Cross. And Up One Pair of Stairs at the Sign of the Sugar-Loaf a Confectioners Shop over against Old Round Court near the New Exchange in the Strand. Where Only and no where else the following Necklace belonging to the Philosophical Essay at the end of this Scheme, is to be had. Dedicated to Dr. Chamberlen. - Note. That altho the following Philosophical Essay (which I desire all my Readers seriously to peruse) upon The Celebrated Anodyne Necklace Recommended by Dr Chamberlen for Children's Teeth, &c. at the end of this Scheme, is Given away at all the 3 just now mentioned Places togather with this Scheme, being joined both togather in this Book: Yet the Necklace it self is to be had only at the Last of these 3 places, that is, at the abovementioned Sugar-Loaf over against Old Round Court in the Strand, & not at the 2 other places.
Date: 1717- Books
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Pillula salutaris; Or, the justly celebrated Dr. Anthony's Irish pills, (so warmly recommended by Dr. Graham), originally invented, and solely prepared by that celebrated Doctress, Dame Nature, in whom alone the secret reposes: - these pills are remarkably efficacious in the Cure of several Diseases, particularly those of the Stomach; they are known by different Names in different Countries, such as Munster Plumbs, Irish Apricots, Dungarvon Almonds, Jerusalem Artichokes, Eastham Ginseng, Hibernian Mandrakes, Windsor Nutmegs, &c. &c. In Love, they are found to be extremely successful, and as they are far from being Quack Pills, they neither require gilding, nor yet Letters Patent to set them off, as they are of themselves so inviting, that in the Course of a little Preparation they smile in your Face. - Edwin's Pills for purging Melancholy, are nothing to them-as yet they have been free from all Taxes, except that partial and oppressive one-the Shop Tax;-And it is wished that the first Inventors of it may be choaked with the first they swallow of them. These excellent pills, in their prime Quality, are now selling (by the Doctress's particular Appointment) at no. 25, Long-Acre, by Michael Devlin, Vos Hibernia Collocatis,-Summum Bonum in Potatoes. Ye London Folkes,-Leave off your Jokes, Ye snarling Quacks be dumb, These are the Pills,-That cure all Ills, Past, present, and to come.
Devlin, Michael, active 18th century.Date: 1790?]- Books
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The guardian goddess of health: or, The whole art of preventing and curing diseases; and of enjoying peace and happiness of body and of mind to the longest possible period of human existence: with precepts for the preservation and exaltation of personal beauty and loveliness. To which is added, an account of the composition, preparation, and properties of the three great medicines prepared and dispensed at the Temple of Health, Adelphi, and at the Temple of Hymen, Pall-Mall, London. By James Graham, M.D. This book is of so much real importance to the health and happiness of each individual among the public, that tho' it contains more matter or reading than most two shilling pamphlets, it is ordered to be sold for only two pence; - a price very inadequate to the prime cost of the paper, printing, distribution, &c. But salus populi suprema lex est!
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: [1780?]- Books
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Londons Lord have mercy upon us : A true relation of seven modern plagues or visitations in London with the number of those that were buried of all diseases; viz the first in the year of Queen Elizabeth, anno 1592. The second in the year 1603 the third in (that never to be forgotten year) 1625. The fourth in anno 1630. The fift in the year 1636. The sixt in the year 1637. and 1638 the seventh this present year 1665.
Date: 1665- Books
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Syllabus of lectures on the theory and practice of midwifery: Including The Pathology or general Doctrine of acute and chronic Diseases incident to Women and Children, with their Treatment and Cure. - For the clearer Demonstration of operative Midwisery (whether simply by the Hand, or Application of Instruments) the several Methods of assisting 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. The whole will be illustrated by such Anatomical Preparations as are applicable to each Lecture; with various 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: 1782