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An account of the wonderful cures perform'd by the cold baths. With advice to the water drinkers at Tunbridge, Hampstead, Astrope, Nasborough, and all the other Chalibeate Spaws: Wherein the Usefulness of cold bathing is further recommended to the Lovers of Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Brandy, &c. Preferring the Use of Bathing in those Springs before the Drinking of Their Waters. With a Table of the Diseases in which cold baths are Proper, or Dangerous. To which is Prefix'd A Letter from Sir John Floyer, in Answer to One of the Author's to him, about the further Use of cold baths. By Dr. Browne.
Browne, Joseph, active 1700-1721.Date: 1707- Books
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An account of the wonderful cures perform'd by the cold baths. With advice to the water drinkers at Tunbridge, Hampstead, Astrope, Nasborough, and all the other Chalibeate Spaws: Wherein the Usefulness of cold bathing is further Recommended to the Lovers of Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Brandy, &c. Preferring the Use of Bathing in those Springs before the Drinking of their Waters. With a Table of the Diseases in which cold baths are Proper, or Dangerous. To which is Prefix'd A Letter from Sir John Floyer, in Answer to One of the Author's to him, about the further Use of cold baths. By Dr. Browne.
Browne, Joseph, active 1700-1721.Date: [1707?]- Books
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The publican's guide; or, key to the distill-house. Containing I. An Account of Rum, Brandy, and other Spirituous Liquors, in their Original State; the most advantageous Method of purchasing each Article; various Frauds on the Quays pointed out, and how to avoid them; with Instructions for the Buyer, by which every Retailer will be enabled to reduce his own Liquors, and sell on Terms equal to- and with far more Credit than-the generality of advertising Merchants. II. The discovery of Adulteration in what is called Genuine Rum; Rum to sink Oil, &c. also the iniquitous Practice of Adulteration in the Distillery. III. A True Description of false proof, commonly called the doctor; how made Use of; it's Effect on Spirits, with Genuine receipts for making the Composition. IV. The Use of Clarke's Celebrated Hydrometer, an Instrument to ascertain the true Strength of Spirits. V. Tables shewing the Prices of Liquors, from 5l. per Tun to 100l. and from One Gallon to a Tun. Also, the exact Weight of Rectified Spirits of Wine, Brandy, Rum, and Proof-Spirit, from One Gallon to Two Hundred. Interspersed with anecdotes and remarks, Necessary to be known by all Dealers in Spirits, and highly interesting to the Public in General. A new edition, with additions. By William Augustus Smyth.
Smyth, William Augustus.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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Some observations upon the bill for preventing the making unwholsome and unmerchantable brandy's from corn, and for preventing the clandestine importation of French brandy's: in respect of the distillers not free of the Distillers Company (tho' many of them free of other companies of London) with relation to the clause for giving a power of inspection to the master, wardens and assistants of that company alone.
Date: 1702]- Books
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Kearsley's annual eight-penny tax tables, for the year 1795, containing the new duties on Hair Powder, Insurances, Legacies, Receipts, and other Stamps; Stage coaches and pleasure carts Tea, Coffee and Cocoa Nuts, Sweets and Wines. Also an accurate Abstract of the former Taxes on Apprentices Attornies Clerks Auctioneers Alchouse-Keepers Bills of Exchange Brewers Brandy Dealers Bricks and Tiles Candles Coaches Distillers Excise Licences Game Licences Glass Hawkers & Pedlars Houses Horses Medicines Notes of Hand Paper Persumery Post Horses Receipts Servants Slates Spirits Stamps Stones Table Beer Windows Wire, &c. Likewise the new acts for the regulation of franking, The Payment of Soldiers Quarters, And the preventing the Use of False Weights
Kearsley, George, active 1791-1813.Date: [1795]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. De Vrouw Eleonora, Teunis De Boer, Master. Teunis de Boer, the Master and Claimant in Fact of the whole Cargo of said Ship (but now suggested to be Claimant only of Two Hundred and Twenty-Seven Pipes of Holland Proof Brandy, laden on Board said Ship) as the Property of Hendrick Berghaus, of Amsterdam, Merchant, - - - - - Appellant. Tristram Hillman, Commander of the Private Ship of War the Maidstone, the Captor, - - - - - - - Respondent. On an Appeal from the Court of Vice-Admiralty for the Island of Minorca. Respondent's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1788?]- Pictures
Soldiers attributing their wounds and injuries to excess brandy drinking? Coloured etching.
Reference: 20087i- Books
Notes on alcohol in brandy, whisky and rum / by Sir Walter Gilbey.
Gilbey, Walter, Sir, 1831-1914.Date: [1903]- Pictures
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A convalescent man requesting brandy and therefore showing the first signs of recovery. Pen drawing.
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A friendly admonition to the drinkers of brandy, and other distilled spirituous liquors.
Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.Date: MDCCXXXIII. [1733]- Books
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A friendly admonition to the drinkers of brandy, and other distilled spirituous liquors.
Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.Date: M.DCC.XXXIV. [1734]- Books
The use of brandy and salt, as a remedy for inflammation / [William Lee].
Lee, William, 1774 or 1775-1853Date: 1840- Books
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The housekeeper's valuable present: or, lady's closet companion. Being a new and complete art of preparing confects, according to modern practice. Comprized under the following Parts; viz. I. Different Methods and Degrees of boiling and clarifying Sugar. II. Methods of preserving various Fruits in Syrups, &c. III. Methods of making Marmalades, Jams, Pastes, &c. IV. Methods of making Syrups, Custards, Jellies, Blanch-Mange, Conserves, Syllabubs, &c. V. Methods of preserving various Fruits in Brandy. VI. Methods of making a Variety of Biscuits, rich Cakes, &c. &c. Vii. Methods of mixing, freezing, and working Ice Creams. Viii. Methods of preparing Cordials and made Wines. With a Variety of other useful and elegant Articles. By Robert Abbot, Late Apprentice to Messrs. Negri & Gunter, Confectioners, in Berkeley Square.
Abbot, Robert, cook.Date: [1790?]- Books
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Instructions for officers of the London distillery, brandy, and small dealers in tea, &c.
Great Britain. Commissioners of Excise.Date: Printed In The Year M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]- Pictures
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An old woman attempting to cure her corns by drinking brandy while her feet are plunged in salt. Wood engraving.
Reference: 11889i- Books
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Notice is hereby given to all dealers in brandy, rum, malt, or Melasses-Spirits, Arrack, &c. that the hydrometer, or brandy-prover, being the production of many years study and Experiments, is now brought to its utmost perfection.
Clarke, Richard, manufacturer.Date: [1746]- Books
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Of the use of tobacco tea, Coffee, Chocolate, and Drams. Under the following Heads. I. Of Smoaking Tobacco, as commonly Practised. And of what Service Tobacco is in the Plague. II. Of Chewing Tobacco. III. Of Taking Tobacco in Snuff. IV. Of the Use of Tea, (green, and Bohea.) V. Of Drinking Coffee. And Throwing its Grounds. VI. Of Chocolate, and Vanillas. Vii. Of Brandy, Rum, Geneva, and other Drams. With Rules for Smoaking, Taking of Snuff, Drinking Tea, Coffee, &c. so as to prevent any ill Effects on the Nerves. This Book is Given Gratis, Up One pair of Stairs at the Sign of the Anodyne Necklace without Temple-Bar. At Mr Gregg's Bookseller next Northumberland-House Charing-Cross. And At Mrs Garway's, at the R. Exchange-Gate, Cornhil Side.
Date: 1722- Books
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An essay upon the silk-worm: containing many improvements upon this curious subject; together with large collections from the most approved authors. The whole setting forth: I. The Antiquity of the Silk-Worm. II. Where the Silk-Worms were first propagated, and when brought into Europe: with Estimates of the Profits arising from them. III. The Success of Henry III. and IV. in France, which excited King James I. zealously to attempt the enriching England by the Silk-Manufacture. IV. The Methods of cultivating Mulberry trees, and making excellent Wine and Brandy with the Fruit. V. The most approved ways of hatching and feeding the Silk-Worms, and managing their Silk. VI. The Certainty and Facility of bringing the Silk Manufacture in England to its utmost Perfection, &c. By Henry Barham, Esq; F. R. S.
Barham, Henry, 1670?-1726.Date: MDCCXIX. [1719]- Books
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The case between the merchants and the farmers of the excise : concerning brandy and strong-waters perfectly made, as it relates to His Majesties revenue.
Date: [1668?]- Books
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The use of brandy and salt, as a remedy for inflammation / illustrated and explained by the discoverer.
Lee, William, 1774 or 1775-1853Date: [1840]- Pictures
A graph plotting admissions to 16 Swiss treatment centres for alcoholism against the price of brandy, 1908-1928. Lithograph, ca. 1929.
Date: [1929?]Reference: 689469iPart of: Statistics on alcoholism in Switzerland.- Pictures
A graph plotting new admissions of alcoholics to 23 Swiss lunatic asylums against the price of brandy, 1908-1928. Lithograph, ca. 1929.
Date: [1929?]Reference: 689465iPart of: Statistics on alcoholism in Switzerland.- Pictures
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Two drunken soldiers ask an apothecary for some 'eau de vie' - some brandy. Coloured lithograph by J. Rigo.
Rigo, Jules, 1810-1892.Reference: 16819iPart of: Souvenirs militaires- Books
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The use of brandy and salt, as a remedy for inflammation / illustrated and explained by the discoverer, William Lee.
Lee, William, 1774 or 1775-1853.Date: 1840- Books
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Instructions to be observed by permit-writers and officers concerned in surveying brandy dealers & retailers in the country.
Great Britain. Commissioners of Excise.Date: Printed in the year M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]