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By permission of the Reverend the Vice-Chancellor, and the Worshipful the Mayor. In the Town-Hall, Cambridge, Tuesday, February 23d, 1790. Mr. George Saville Carey, Who has been received with the greatest Applause before their Majesties, during their Residence at Weymouth, and at the Theatres Royal Covent Garden and Hay-Market, &c. And Mr. Kean, From the Theatres Royal Covent-Garden and Hay-Market, an Honorary Member of the Anacreontic Society, London, who has distinguished himself in the most eminent Manner in that convivial and elegant Circle, will open their Evening Lounge, Consisting of a Series of Imitations, Theatrical and Senatorial, The Theatrical Characters, Vocal and Rhetorical. Characters Imitated. Part I. - Mr. Carey. Garrick's Examination of a Stage Candidate. African Slaves' Appeal to Liberty, Mr. Woodward, Buck, Mr. Macklin, Macbeth, Mr. Edwin, Etiquette, Mr. Lowe, Early Horn, Mrs. Barthelemon, Mincet, Mrs. Pitt, Widow Lovet, Part II. - Mr. Kean. Shift's Introduction to Sir William Wealthy,-a Recital. Messrs. Hull and Holman, Friar Lawrence & Romeo. Mr. Waldron, Abraham in Harlequin's Invasion, Mr. Diggs, Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. Lee Lewes, Prologue to the Invasion, Mr. Bensley, Pierre in Venice Preserved, Mr. Wroughton, Grave Scene in Romeo and Juliet. Crotchet and Quaver, A Delineation of two eminent Music Venders in London. Part III. - Mr. Carey. Mr. Incledon, Ma chere Amie, Air in the Manner of Rubinelli, Mr. Leoni, Carlos in the Duenna, Miss Catley, Juno in her Cups, Mrs. Wells, Charming Fellow, Madam Mara, And the Mouse, Mrs. Baddeley, No Flower that blows, Barry, Garrick, and Smith, K. Richards. Part IV. - Mr. Kean. Foote's Smirk, (from the Minor) after the manner of a well known Auctioneer in London. The late Mr. Henderson, Iago. Mr. King, Prologue to Bon Ton, Messrs. Kemble and Quick, Hamlet and Grave Digger. Mr. Lamash, Jessamy, Mr. Bannister Senior, Richard Caeur Lion. A Senatorial Dialogue between Mr. P-tt and Mr. F-x, Part V. - Mr. Carey. - Mrs. Cargill, Roundelay. Three Old Women Whether Wise, Goody Twitch, Goody Cramp, and Good Rheum, an Interlude with Songs. The Whole to conclude with Messrs. Vernon, Bannister, and Dignum, Serenade in the Jubilee. Admittance as. - Doors to be opened at Seven o'clock, and begin at Eight The Room will be lighted with Wax, and there will be good Fires.
Carey, George Saville, 1743-1807.Date: 1790]- 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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An elegant and useful publication for the fair sex. Adapted for families and boarding schools. On Monday, July 2, 1798, will be published, In a convenient size for the pocket, fancifully done up in coloured paper, and embellished with, 1st, a Portrait of Mrs. Hannah More, beautifully engraved by an eminent artist; 2d, a superb Coloured Plate of the present Fashionable Dresses for the Ladies. Number I. (price 1s.) of the Ladies' Monthly Museum; or, polite repository of amusement and instruction: Being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the Fancy, interest the Mind, or exalt the character of the British Fair. By a Society of Ladies. London: printed for the Proprietors, and sold by Messrs. Vernor and Hood, in the Poultry, and by every Bookseller in the three Kingdoms. - Communications addressed to the Editors, Post paid, will be thankfully received.
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The compleat tutor. Being the second part to the Child's compleat tutor. Consisting, I. Of Words of Four, Five, Six, and Seven Syllables. II. Tables of the most usual Scripture names, with their Signification. - Of the usual Proper Names of Men and Women, and their Signification. III. Of Letters in general; of Diphthongs Tripthongs, with the Division of Syllables. IV. A Table of Words, the same, or nearly alike in Sound, but different in Sense and Spelling. V. The Use of Stops and Marks in Writing, and a List of Abbrevations, with their Explanations. VI. Treating on Grammar in general. Vii. Of Figures and Numerals. To which is added, select fables in prose and verse. Intended for the use of schools. By John Jones, Usher in Bromsgrove Free-School.
Jones, John, usher in Bromsgrove Free-School.Date: [1769]- Books
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English housewifery, exemplified in above four hundred and fifty receipts, giving directions in most parts of cookery; And how to prepare various Sorts of Soops, Made Dishes, Pastes, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, &c. &c. &c. With cuts, for the orderly placing the dishes and courses; also Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year; and an Alphabetical Index to the Whole. A Book necessary for Mistresses of Families, higher and lower Women Servants, and confined to Things Useful, Substantial, and Splendid, and calculated for the Preservaion of Health, and upon the Measures of Frugality, being the Result of Thirty Years Practice and Experience. By Elizabeth Moxon. With an appendix, Containing upwards of Eighty Receipts, of the most valuable Kind, (many never before printed) communicated to the Publisher by several Gentlewomen in the Neighbourhood, distinguished by their extraordinary Skill in Housewifery. - To this Edition is now added, An Introduction, giving an Account of the Times when River Fish are in Season; and a Table, shewing at one View the proper Seasons for Sea Fish.
Moxon, Elizabeth.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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A catalogue of all the neat elegant genuine household furniture, Table and Tea services of fine Nankeen, Dresden, and Chelsea Porcelain, China, Glass, valuable Pictures, Prints, a large capital Collection of curious Shells, Insects, Sea Weeds, Rock Work, household linen, and other effects, also All the live and dead stock, belonging to Bartholomew Price, Esq. Who is quitting his Seat at Challow, in Berkshire, One Mile from Wantage, in the High Turnpike Road and Sixty-One Miles from London: which (by direction of the proprietor) Will be sold by Auction, By James Lucas, On Wednesday the 20th of September, 1786, and Two following Days, On the Premises, In 150 Lots each Day, at Ten O'Clock, The Whole may be viewed on Monday and Tuesday, and the Mornings of Sale. Catalogues may be then had on the Premises; the Inns on the Road from London to Challow; and of James Lucas, Auctioneer, No. 66, Chiswell Street, Moorfields. London, who respectfully begs Leave to inform the Public, that the China, Glass, Shells, Insects, Books, and Part of the Household Furniture, will be sold in the First Day; the Drawing Room Suite, principal Rooms, Prints, Pictures, and Linen, in the Second Day's Sale; and all the valuable Live and Dead Stock, Building Materials, Brewing Vessels, and other useful Domestic Articles in the Third and last Day's Sale. - The Furniture to be cleared on the Mornings of Sale, and within One Day after the Sale is ended.
Lucas, James, active 1786.Date: 1786]- Books
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A new introduction to trade and business; very useful for the youth of both sexes. Wherein is contained great variety of receipts for money, Goods, &c. promissory notes, bills of exchange, Bills Of AtParcels, And Bills ON Book - Debts. With ample instructions how to Form Them. Also Several Instructive Exercises; Disbursements; Week's Expences, Goods bought at Sales, &c. To which are added, I. Commercial and Epistolary Correspondence, exemplified in various Forms of Business, and Familiar Letters. II. A List of the most common Abbrevations of Words for the Dispatch of Business. III. Arithmetical Tables of Weights and Measures. IV. A new Set of Questions to exercise the Learner in several of the Rules of Arithmetic, by Way of Amusement, as well as Improvdment. V. The Explanation and Use of the Frontispiece or Perpetual Almanac. A new edition, corrected and improved, With the Addition of Four Copper Plates neatly engraved. By Peter Hudson, Author of The New English Introduction to the Latin Tongue, French Scholar's Guide, &c. And other School Masters. Designed for the use of schools, and Youth in General.
Hudson, Peter.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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A present for an apprentice: or, a sure guide to gain both esteem and estate. With rules for his conduct to his master, and in the world. Under the following Heads, Lying, Dishonesty, Fidelity, Temperance, Excess of all Kind Government of the Tongue, Other Peoples Quarrels. Quarrels of one's own, Affability, Frugality, Industry, Value of Time, Company, Friendship, Bonds and Securities, Recreations, Gaming, Company of Women, Horse-Keeping, Proper Persons to deal with, Suspicion, Resentment, Complacency, Tempers and Faces of Men, Irresolution and Indolence, Caution in setting up, Great Rents, Fine Shops, Servants, Choice of a Wife, Happiness after Marriage, Domestic Quarrels, House-Keeping, Education of Children, Politics, Religion. By a late Lord Mayor of London.
Barnard, John, Sir, 1685-1764.Date: [1750?]- Books
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The works of Homer, the celebrated Grecian poet: including new and complete editions of the Iliad, and the Odyssey; Those very celebrated and universally-admited Epic or Heroic Poems. The Iliad-in twenty four Books-Being composed on the Subject of the memorable Siege of Troy-Interspersed with the most beautiful Allegories, and containing a most sublime Description of the Battles between the Greeks and Trojans, during a Ten Years Siege, in which the Great and Valiant Achilles, the principal Hero of the War, after his Reconciliation with Agamemnon, slew Hector with his own Hand, and afterwards dragged the Corpse at his Chariot. Wheels round the Walls of Troy. Comprizing a great Variety of valuable and useful Maxims on Military Discipline, Stratagem, Exploits in Civil Affairs, Politics, Virtue, Resolution, Prudence, Oeconomy, and, in short, respecting all the various Offices and Duties of Human Life; and affording the most important, agreeable, and entertaining Instruction, conveyed in the most lively Manner, to Mankind in general. The Odyssey-Composed also in Twenty-Four Books-And containing, among a Variety of other useful and entertaining Particulars, a most magnificent and delightful Description of the Voyages and Adventures of the wise and venerable Ulysses, King of Ithaca, in Greece, and one of the Princes who conducted the Siege of Troy, during his Absence for Twenty Years from his Queen Penelope. Exhibiting not only a just Picture of the Ancient Grecians, but a beautiful System of Morality, Wisdom, Fortitude, Perseverance, Moderation and Temperance, instructive to all Degrees of Men, and filled with striking Images, Similies, Examples, and Precepts of Civil and Domestic Life. Including also that other excellent Piece of Homer, entitled The battle of the frogs and mice -in Three Books-A very beautiful, ingenious, satyrical, and interesting Production, replete with Wit, Humour, and Entertainment, allegorically describing the Valour and Intrepidity of those sagacious Animals. Carefully translated from the original Greek. In the Execution of this New and Improved Edition, all former Editors and Commentators on Homer will be carefully consulted and attended to, viz. Eustathius, Dacies, Ogilby, Chapman, Dryden, Parnel, Warburton, &c. particularly that hitherto most esteemed Translation by Alex. Pope, Esq. Illustrated with large and valuable notes, Critical, Historical, Philosophical, Allegorical, Poetical, Scholastic, Political, Moral, Entertaining, Philological, and Explanatory. Comprehending the most salutary Reflections and useful Remarks, with many important References to Ancient Mythology, Geography, and Universal History, &c. &c. - To which will be carefully added, The Arguments at large to every Book or Chapter, and the most Authentic Memoirs of the Life of Homer; as also A New Essay on Homer's Battdes, &c. and a Complete Geographical Table of the Towns, &c. in Homer's Catalogue of Greece. Being the most perfect and beautiful Edition of Homer ever published, and calculated to accommodate and please every Class of Readers. The whole embellished with A most Superb Set of Grand Quarto copper-plates, Designed and engraved by the most Capital Artists: so that these Elegant Engravings will alone be worth more than the Purchase-Money of the whole Work. The whole revised, corrected, and improved by William Henry Melmoth, Esq. Editor of the New and Beautiful Quarto Edition of Telemachus,-The New Abridgment of the Roman History, &c. &c.
Homer.Date: [1780]- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 6
Date: Aug 1901 - Jul 1903Reference: WF/E/01/01/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
A singular remedy : cinchona across the Atlantic World, 1751-1820 / Stefanie Gänger.
Gänger, StefanieDate: 2021- Books
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The town and country friend and physician, or, An affectionate address on the preservation of health, and the removal of disease on its first appearance : supposed to be delivered by a country physician to the circle of his friends and patients on his retiring from business : with cursory observations on the treatment of children, &c. Intended for the promotion of domestic happiness : in two parts.
Parkinson, James, 1755-1824.Date: 1803- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: HEA-HEY
Date: 1765-1910Reference: MS.8854- Books
[Box of medical historical papers by E. Ashworth Underwood].
Underwood, E. Ashworth, 1899-1980.Date: 1930-1978- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 1 ['HSW Private No.1']
Date: Aug 1882-Mar 1888Reference: WF/E/01/01/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Videos
Medicine through time.
Date: 1998